Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...198.0815h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 198th AAS Meeting, #08.15; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.798
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
Recent optical and near-infrared surface photometry of edge-on disk galaxies has revealed that stellar disks may be truncated at scalelengths much smaller than previously believed. In fact, truncation radii may be, on average, as small as 2.9 +/- 0.7 R-band disk scale lengths (Pohlen et al 2000). We show that such small truncation radii inhibit the development of extended tidal debris in merging galaxies. We focus on the archetypical merger galaxy, NGC 7252, comparing the observed amount of tidal light with that produced in dynamical models of this system. The models vary the truncation radii and structural properties of the merging disk galaxies, as well as the orbital properties of the encounter. We find that it is very hard to reconcile the large amount of tidal light in NGC 7252 with truncation radii much smaller than 4 disk scale lengths.
Holley-Bockelmann Kelly J.
Mihos James Christopher
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