Interactions and Mergers in Galaxy Formation

This is a written version of four lectures presented at the The Formation of Galaxies: V Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics in December 1993.

Subject Headings

• INTRODUCTION
• TECHNICAL ASPECTS
  • Physical Models
    • Stars and dark matter
    • Interstellar material
    • Gravity
  • Collisionless N-Body Simulation
    • Force calculation
    • Time integration
    • Errors and limitations
  • Gas-Dynamic Simulation
  • Initial Conditions
• ENCOUNTERS AND MERGERS
  • Tidal Interactions
  • Orbit Decay
  • Mergers of Stellar Systems
    • Profiles and densities
    • Shapes and kinematics
    • Orbit structure
  • Mergers `Con Gas'
    • Gas dynamics
    • Remnant structure
• NGC 7252 AND OTHER SMOKING GUNS
  • Photometric Properties
  • Gas Kinematics
  • Models of NGC 7252
  • Young Star Clusters
  • Condensations in Tidal Tails
  • Infrared Galaxies and Aging Star-Bursts
• REFERENCES

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Last modified: January 6, 1995