Simulations of Line Profile Structure in Shell Galaxies

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Authors

JÍLKOVÁ Lucie JUNGWIERT Bruno KŘÍŽEK Miroslav EBROVÁ Ivana STOKLASOVÁ Ivana BARTÁKOVÁ Tereza BARTOŠKOVÁ Kateřina

Year of publication 2010
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference GALAXY WARS: STELLAR POPULATIONS AND STAR FORMATION IN INTERACTING GALAXIES
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Citation
Web http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ASPC..423..243J
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20285-8_45
Field Astronomy and astrophysics
Keywords galaxies: interactions; galaxies: N-body simulations; galaxies: shell galaxies
Description In the context of exploring mass distributions of dark matter haloes in giant ellipticals, we extend the analysis carried out by Merrifield & Kuijken (1998) for stellar line profiles of shells created in nearly radial mergers of galaxies. We show that line-of-sight velocity distributions are more complex than previously predicted. We simulate shell formation and analyze the detectability of spectroscopic signatures of shells after convolution with spectral PSFs.
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