On the Stability of Quasi-Equilibrium Self-Gravitating Configurations in a Tidal Field

Details On the Stability of Quasi-Equilibrium Self-Gravitating Configurations in a Tidal Field On the Stability of Quasi-Equilibrium Self-Gravitating Configurations in a Tidal Field

2000-11-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0011432v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

36 pages, 7 postscript figures, to be published in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/319772

The possibility that quasi-equilibrium self-gravitating galaxy-like configurations exist in a tidal field is analyzed in this paper. More specifically, we address the question of how to predict initial configurations modeling galaxies that are able to survive environmental effects in a dense environment for a Hubble time or so, provided thay dynamical friction is neglected. The initial quasi-equilibrium configurations have been built up taking into account the external tidal field produced by the halo. It modifies the escape velocity field of the configuration, compared with isolated configurations. The survival of the configurations as they orbit inside the halos has been studied through N-body simulations. As a general result, it has been found out that the bulk of the models is conserved along 12.5 Gyears of evolution, and that the low rates of mass losses they experience are consistent with those expected when the adiabatic protection hypothesis is at work. So, solutions for galaxy configurations in tidal quasi-equilibrium have been found, showing that tidal stripping in quiescent phases does not seem to be very important, unless that the density of the galaxy environment at its formation had been much lower than that of the galaxy environment at the point of its orbit where the tidal perturbation is maximum. (Abridged)

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