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Studying the Physical Properties of Tidal Features I. Extracting Morphological Substructure in CANDELS Observations and VELA Simulations

Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha, Daniel H. McIntosh, Cody P. Ciaschi +17

The role of major mergers in galaxy evolution remains a key open question. Existing empirical merger identification methods use non-parametric and subjective visual classifications…