Long Tidal Tails in Merging Galaxies and Their Implications

Jian Ren, Xian Zhong Zheng, David Valls-Gabaud +8

We investigate the properties of long tidal tails using the largest to date sample of 461 merging galaxies with $\log (M_{\ast }/{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot })\ge 9.5$ within $0.2\le z\le 1$ from th…