Publication details
Simulations of Line Profile Structure in Shell Galaxies
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | GALAXY WARS: STELLAR POPULATIONS AND STAR FORMATION IN INTERACTING GALAXIES |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ASPC..423..243J |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20285-8_45 |
| Field | Astronomy and astrophysics |
| Keywords | galaxies: interactions; galaxies: N-body simulations; galaxies: shell galaxies |
| Description | In the context of exploring mass distributions of dark matter haloes in giant ellipticals, we extend the analysis carried out by Merrifield & Kuijken (1998) for stellar line profiles of shells created in nearly radial mergers of galaxies. We show that line-of-sight velocity distributions are more complex than previously predicted. We simulate shell formation and analyze the detectability of spectroscopic signatures of shells after convolution with spectral PSFs. |
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