Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-11-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 figures, contribution to the proceedings of JENAM 2010 in Lisbon, Symposium 2 "Environment and the formation of gal
Scientific paper
Most of dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Local Group were probably formed via environmental processes like the tidal interaction with the Milky Way. We study this process via N-body simulations of dwarf galaxies evolving on seven different orbits around the Galaxy. The dwarf galaxy is initially composed of a rotating stellar disk and a dark matter halo. Due to the action of tidal forces it loses mass and the disk gradually transforms into a spheroid while stellar motions become increasingly random. We measure the characteristic scale-length of the dwarf, its maximum circular velocity, mass, shape and kinematics as a function of the integrated tidal force along the orbit. The final properties of the evolved dwarfs are remarkably similar if the total tidal force they experienced was the same, independently of the actual size and eccentricity of the orbit.
Callegari Simone
Kazantzidis Stelios
Lokas Ewa L.
Mayer Lucio
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