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A top-down scenario for the formation of massive Tidal Dwarf Galaxies
Pierre-Alain Duc, Frederic Bournaud, Frederic Masset
Among those objects formed out of collisional debris during galaxy mergers, the prominent gaseous accumulations observed near the tip of some long tidal tails are the most likely t…
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Identifying old Tidal Dwarf Galaxies in Simulations and in the Nearby Universe
Pierre-Alain Duc, Frederic Bournaud, Frederic Masset
Most Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs) so-far discussed in the literature may be considered as young ones or even newborns, as they are still physically linked to their parent galaxies b…