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astro-ph.GA2009★ 68 cited
Heated Disc Stars in the Stellar Halo
Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock, Stelios Kazantzidis
Minor accretion events with mass ratio M_sat : M_host ~ 1:10 are common in the context of LCDM cosmology. We use high-resolution simulations of Galaxy-analogue systems to show that…
astro-ph.GA2009★ 2 cited
The Role of Dwarf Galaxies in Building Large Stellar Halos
Evan N. Kirby, Puragra Guhathakurta, James S. Bullock +10
The hierarchical theory of galaxy formation rests on the idea that smaller galactic structures merge to form the galaxies that we see today. The past decade has provided remarkable…