444 citations · 445 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
2 papers
astro-ph1995★ 444 cited
Quantifying the Fragility of Galactic Disks in Minor Mergers
Ian R. Walker, J. Christopher Mihos, Lars Hernquist
We perform fully self-consistent stellar dynamical simulations of the accretion of a companion ("satellite") galaxy by a large disk galaxy to investigate the interaction between th…
astro-ph1995★ 1 cited
A Merger Origin for X-Structures in S0 Galaxies
Chris Mihos, Ian Walker, Lars Hernquist +2
Using numerical simulation, we study the response of a disk galaxy to a merger involving a low-mass satellite companion. During a prograde satellite accretion, the disk galaxy form…