Simulations of Shell Galaxies with GADGET-2: Multi-Generation Shell Systems
Abstract
As the missing complement to existing studies of shell galaxies, we carried out a set of self-consistent N-body simulations of a minor merger forming a stellar shell system within a giant elliptical galaxy. We discuss the effect of a phenomenon possibly associated with the galaxy merger simulations - a presence of multiple generations of shells.
- Publication:
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Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later
- Pub Date:
- 2011
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1103.2562
- Bibcode:
- 2011ASSP...27..195B
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Proceedings of JENAM 2010, Symposium 2: "Environment and the formation of galaxies: 30 years later"