Computer Science
Scientific paper
Nov 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987asee.nasaq....b&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Marshall Space Flight Center, Research Reports: 1987 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program 19 p (SEE N88-15601 07
Computer Science
Infrared Radiation, Interacting Galaxies, Perturbation, Spiral Galaxies, Tides, Collisions, Disks (Shapes), High Speed, Luminosity, Models, Molecular Clouds
Scientific paper
Computer simulations of tidal interactions of spiral galaxies are used to attempt to understand recent discoveries about infrared (IR) emitting galaxies. It is found that the stronger tidal perturbation by a companion the more disk gas clouds are thrown into nucleus crossing orbits and the greater the velocity jumps crossing spiral arms. Both these tidally created characteristics would create more IR emission by high speed cloud collisions and more IR via effects of recently formed stars. This expectation at greater tidal perturbation matches the observation of greater IR emission for spiral galaxies with closer and/or more massive companions. The greater collision velocities found at stronger perturbations on the models will also result in higher dust temperature in the colliding clouds. In the IR pairs examined, most have only one member, the larger, detected and when both are detected, the larger is always the more luminous. In simulations and in a simple analytic description of the strong distance dependence of the tidal force, it is found that the big galaxy of a pair is more strongly affected than the small.
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