Bibcode
González-García, A. C.; van Albada, T. S.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 361, Issue 3, pp. 1043-1054.
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2005
Citations
27
Refereed citations
27
Description
We perform N-body simulations of encounters between spherical systems
surrounded by a spherical halo. Following a preceding paper with a
similar aim, the initial systems include a spherical Jaffe model for the
luminous matter and a Hernquist model for the halo. The merger remnants
from this sample are mainly slowly rotating, prolate spheroids with a
radially anisotropic velocity distribution. The results are compared
with real-life ellipticals and with the models without halo in Paper I.
We argue that elliptical galaxies with evidence of dark matter could be
formed in the field via a merger of spheroids surrounded by a dark
matter halo, while ellipticals with no evidence of dark matter might be
formed via a merger of two spheroids in a cluster.