Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Apr 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011dda....42.0405q&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DDA meeting #42, #4.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The timescale for a tidal tail in a galaxy to diverge from its original orbit due to perturbations from dark subhalos depends on a Coulomb logarithm and so is sensitive to distant dark sub-halos. However the timescale for clumps or kinks to form in the tail depends on the compression or sheer induced by encounters and these are strongly dependent on the impact parameter, giving a diffusion coefficient for thickening that is independent of the Coulomb log and strongly dependent on close encounters. The induced sheer or compression gives a timescale for clump or kink formation of approximately 1 Gyr for a 10^7 solar mass subhalo coming within a kpc of a tail (or having a core radius of a kpc). Because they sample more halo volume faster we find that the structure of wide tidal tails from disrupting dwarf galaxies give stronger constraints on the number of bound dark subhalos than either diffuse tidal features in the outer parts of galaxies or colder tidal tails from evaporating globular clusters.
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