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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…
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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…