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The Tidal Evolution of Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals

Jorge Penarrubia, Julio F. Navarro, Alan W. McConnachie

(Abridged) We use N-body simulations to study the evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) driven by galactic tides. We adopt a cosmologically-motivated model where dSphs are…