Tidal Stripping and the Fundamental Plane

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Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aas...18510707l&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 185th AAS Meeting, #107.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 26, p.1498

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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When an elliptical galaxy undergoes a transformation which satisfies several simple physical assumptions, then the resulting observable properties of the galaxy lie on a plane in the three dimensional space defined by effective radius, effective surface brightness, and central velocity dispersion. The angle between this plane and the observed Fundamental Plane of Galaxies is less than 15(deg) , implying that most of any predicted change is projected along the fundamental plane. Monte--Carlo simulations of elliptical galaxies winding their way through a sea of target galaxies show that tidal stripping is probably not the sole cause of the observed dispersion about the fundamental plane of galaxies.

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