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astro-ph2001
Spectrophotometric Investigation of a Sample of Tidal Dwarf Galaxies
Peter M. Weilbacher, Pierre-Alain Duc
We define a Tidal Dwarf Galaxy (TDG) as a self-gravitating entity of dwarf-galaxy mass built from tidal material expelled during interactions. We then summarize our findings on bro…
astro-ph2001
Spectrophotometric Evolutionary Models for Tidal Dwarfs
Peter M. Weilbacher, Uta Fritze-v. Alvensleben
We describe our procedure to model Tidal Dwarf Galaxies in the context of our evolutionary synthesis code. Our analysis shows strong contributions of gaseous emission lines to opti…