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astro-ph2008★ 47 cited
Star cluster survival and compressive tides in Antennae-like mergers
F. Renaud, C. M. Boily, J. -J. Fleck +2
Gravitational tides are widely understood to strip and destroy galactic substructures. In the course of a galaxy merger, however, transient totally compressive tides may develop an…
astro-ph2008★ 3 cited
On time-dependent orbital complexity in gravitational N-body simulations
N. T. Faber, C. M. Boily, S. Portegies Zwart
We implement an efficient method to quantify time-dependent orbital complexity in gravitational -body simulations. The technique, which we name DWaTIM, is based on a discrete wa…