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20022012
most citedRelaxation and Stripping: The Evolution of Sizes, Dispersions and Dark Matter Fractions in Major and Minor Mergers of Elliptical Galaxies

160 citations · 753 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

astro-ph.GA2012★ 160 cited

Relaxation and Stripping: The Evolution of Sizes, Dispersions and Dark Matter Fractions in Major and Minor Mergers of Elliptical Galaxies

Michael Hilz, Thorsten Naab, Jeremiah P. Ostriker +3

We revisit collisionless major and minor mergers of spheroidal galaxies in the context of the size evolution of elliptical galaxies. The simulations are performed as a series of me…

astro-ph2008★ 58 cited

The flattening and the orbital structure of early-type galaxies and collisionless N-body binary disk mergers

J. Thomas, R. Jesseit, R. P. Saglia +8

We use oblate axisymmetric dynamical models including dark halos to determine the orbital structure of intermediate mass to massive Coma early-type galaxies. We find a large variet…

astro-ph2008★ 129 cited

Specific Angular Momentum of Disc Merger Remnants and the -Parameter

Roland Jesseit, Michele Cappellari, Thorsten Naab +2

We use two-dimensional kinematic maps of simulated binary disc mergers to investigate the -parameter, which is a luminosity weighted measure of projected angular momentum per…

astro-ph2008

The Connection between Orbits and Isophotal Shape in Elliptical Galaxies

Roland Jesseit, Thorsten Naab, Andreas Burkert

We examine the origin of photometrical properties of N-body merger remnants from the perpective of their orbital content. We show that disc mergers alone are unlikely to form a box…

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

Formation and evolution of galactic spheroids by mergers

Thorsten Naab, Andreas Burkert, Peter H. Johansson +1

Galactic spheroids can form as a result of galaxy interactions and mergers of disks. Detailed analyses of the photometric properties, the intrinsic orbital structure, the line-of-s…