Dissipationless Collapse of Spherical Protogalaxies and the Fundamental Plane

Christine C. Dantas, Hugo V. Capelato, Reinaldo R. de Carvalho +1

Following on from the numerical work of Capelato, de Carvalho & Carlberg (1995, 1997), where dissipationless merger simulations were shown to reproduce the "Fundamental Plane" (FP)…