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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…