Halo-stripping in Galactic Collisions
arXiv:astro-ph/9607090
Abstract
Galactic collisions are normally modeled in a CDM model by assuming the DM consists of a small number of very massive objects. This note shows that the behaviour of a CDM halo during collisions depends critically on the mass of the particles that make it up, and in particular, all halo particles below a certain characteristic mass are likely to be lost.
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