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Starburst triggered by compressive tides in galaxy mergers
Florent Renaud, Christian Theis, Christian M. Boily
The tidal field of galaxies is known generally to be disruptive. However, in the case of galaxy mergers, a compressive mode of tidal wave may develop and last long enough to cocoon…
Towards an accurate model for the Antennae Galaxies
Simon J. Karl, Thorsten Naab, Peter H. Johansson +2
In the framework of hierarchical structure formation ellipticals can form from merging of smaller disk galaxies. The nearby interacting 'Antennae' galaxy pair (NGC 4038/39) is one…
Black Hole Motion as Catalyst of Orbital Resonances
C. M. Boily, T. Padmanabhan, A. Paiement
The motion of a black hole about the centre of gravity of its host galaxy induces a strong response from the surrounding stellar population. We treat the case of a harmonic potenti…
On the Mass of Dense Star Clusters in Starburst Galaxies from Spectro-Photometry
J. -J. Fleck, C. M. Boily, A. Lançon +1
The mass of unresolved young star clusters derived from spectro-photometric data may well be off by a factor of 2 or more once the migration of massive stars driven by mass segrega…
The great disk of Milky-Way satellites and cosmological sub-structures
Pavel Kroupa, Christian Theis, Christian M. Boily
We show that the shape of the observed distribution of Milky Way (MW) satellites is inconsistent with being drawn from a cosmological sub-structure population with a confidence of…
The impact of mass loss on star cluster formation. II. Numerical N-body integration & further applications
C. M. Boily, P. Kroupa
We subject to an N-body numerical investigation our analysis of Paper I on the survival of stellar clusters undergoing rapid mass loss. We compare analytical tracks of bound mass-f…