3 papers
astro-ph2007★ 69 cited
SAURON's Challenge for the Major Merger Scenario of Elliptical Galaxy Formation
Andreas Burkert, Thorsten Naab, Peter H. Johansson
The intrinsic anisotropy delta and flattening epsilon of simulated merger remnants is compared with elliptical galaxies that have been observed by the SAURON collaboration, and tha…
astro-ph2007★ 57 cited
Axisymmetric orbit models of N-body merger remnants: a dependency of reconstructed mass on viewing angle
J. Thomas, R. Jesseit, T. Naab +3
We model mock observations of collisionless N-body disc-disc mergers with an axisymmetric orbit superposition program that has been used to model Coma ellipticals. The remnants sam…
astro-ph2006★ 136 cited
2-Dimensional Kinematics of Simulated Disc Merger Remnants
Roland Jesseit, Thorsten Naab, Reynier Peletier +1
We present a two-dimensional kinematic analysis for a sample of simulated binary disc merger remnants with mass ratios 1:1 and 3:1. For the progenitor discs we used pure stellar mo…