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Tidal Tails of Minor Mergers II: Comparing Star Formation in the Tidal Tails of NGC 2782
Karen Knierman, Paul Scowen, Todd Veach +5
The peculiar spiral NGC 2782 is the result of a minor merger with a mass ratio ~4:1 occurring ~200 Myr ago. This merger produced a molecular and HI rich, optically bright Eastern t…
Tidal Tails of Minor Mergers: Star Formation Efficiency in the Western Tail of NGC 2782
Karen Knierman, Patricia Knezek, Paul Scowen +2
While major mergers and their tidal debris are well studied, they are less common than minor mergers (mass ratios < 0.3). The peculiar spiral NGC 2782 is the result of a merger bet…
Tidal Tales of Minor Mergers: Star Formation in the Tidal Debris of Minor Mergers
Karen A. Knierman
How does the tidal debris of minor galaxy mergers contribute to structures in spiral galaxies or in the intergalactic medium? While major mergers are known to create structures suc…
Tidal Tails in Interacting Galaxies: Formation of Compact Stellar Structures
B. Mullan, J. C. Charlton, I. S. Konstantopoulos +17
We have used V- and I- band images from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to identify compact stellar clusters within the tidal tails of twelve different interacting galaxies. The s…