Bibcode
Bois, M.; Bournaud, F.; Emsellem, E.; Alatalo, K.; Blitz, L.; Bureau, M.; Cappellari, M.; Davies, R. L.; Davis, T. A.; de Zeeuw, P. T.; Falcón-Barroso, J.; Khochfar, S.; Krajnović, D.; Kuntschner, H.; Lablanche, P.-Y.; McDermid, R. M.; Morganti, R.; Naab, T.; Sarzi, M.; Scott, N.; Serra, P.; van den Bosch, R. C. E.; van de Ven, G.; Weijmans, A.; Young, L. M.
Referencia bibliográfica
HUNTING FOR THE DARK: THE HIDDEN SIDE OF GALAXY FORMATION. Edited by Victor P. Debattista and Cristina C. Popescu AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1240, pp. 405-406 (2010).
Fecha de publicación:
6
2010
Número de citas
4
Número de citas referidas
4
Descripción
We study resolution effects in numerical simulations of gas-rich (20% of
the total baryonic mass) major mergers, and show that the formation of
slowly-rotating elliptical galaxies requires a resolution that is beyond
the present-day standards to be properly modelled. Our findings show
that a high-enough resolution is required to accurately model the global
properties of merger remnants and the evolution of their angular
momentum. The role of wet mergers of spiral galaxies in the formation of
slow-rotating ellipticals may therefore have been underestimated.