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astro-ph.CO2011★ 44 cited
Minor mergers and their impact on the kinematics of old and young stellar populations in disk galaxies
Y. Qu, P. Di Matteo, M. D. Lehnert +2
By means of N-body simulations we investigate the impact of minor mergers on the angular momentum and dynamical properties of the merger remnant. Our simulations cover a range of i…
astro-ph.CO2010★ 54 cited
The formation of a thick disk through the heating of a thin disk: Agreement with orbital eccentricities of stars in the solar neighborhood
P. Di Matteo, M. D. Lehnert, Y. Qu +1
We study the distribution of orbital eccentricities of stars in thick disks generated by the heating of a pre-existing thin stellar disk through a minor merger (mass ratio 1:10), u…