Dynamics of Mergers

Abstract

I review the dynamics of galaxy mergers, paying particular attention to the triggering of gaseous inflows and onset of ultraluminous activity in galaxies.

10 pages, 3 embedded figures. Invited contribution for the Ringburg Workshop "Ultraluminous Galaxies: Monsters or Babies?" (September 1998)

References in corpus (3)

• Dusty star forming galaxies at high redshift
• Testing the Dark Matter Hypothesis with Low Surface Brightness Galaxies and Other Evidence
• The Faint Sub-mm Galaxy Population: HST Morphologies and Colors

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• Tidal Shocking by Extended Mass Distributions
• Ultr-Luminous Infrared Galaxies: QSOs in Formation?
• Dynamical properties of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies I: Mass ratio conditions for ULIRG activity in interacting pairs
• A census of metals at high and low redshifts and the connection between submillimetre sources and spheroid formation
• The Fall of the Quasar Population
• The Demography of Super-Massive Black Holes: Growing Monsters at the Heart of Galaxies
• The Nuclear Gas Dynamics and Star Formation of Markarian 231
• Early Hierarchical Formation of Massive Galaxies Triggered By Interactions
• Investigation of Dual Active Nuclei, Outflows, Shock-Heated Gas, and Young Star Clusters in Markarian 266
• The Relation Between Activity and Environment in Compact Groups of Galaxies
• Spitzer observations of the dusty warped disk of Centaurus A
• Statistical properties of ultraluminous IRAS galaxies from an HST imaging survey
• Integral field optical spectroscopy of a representative sample of ULIRGs: I. The Data
• X-Ray Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei and Hierarchical Galaxy Formation
• The Impact of Energy Feedback on Quasar Evolution and Black Hole Demographics
• Unveiling The Sigma-Discrepancy II: Revisiting the Evolution of ULIRGs & The Origin of Quasars
• Characterization of optically-selected star forming knots in (U)LIRGs
• Probing for evolutionary links between local ULIRGs and QSOs from NIR spectroscopy
• Small-scale systems of galaxies. II. Properties of the NGC 4756 group of galaxies
• Multicolour Optical Imaging of IR-Warm Seyfert Galaxies. V. Morphologies and Interactions. Challenging the Orientation Model
• Analysis of the Interaction Effects in the Southern Galaxy Pair Tol1238-364 and ESO381-G009
• Neutral hydrogen in radio galaxies: results from nearby, importance for far away