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Environmental Effects on Galaxies in Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

R. H. Miller  and
B. F. Smith
R. H. Miller
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory
B. F. Smith
Affiliation:
NASA Ames Research Center

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This study is part of a program to investigate consequences to a galaxy of its orbiting within a cluster of galaxies. Numerical experiments have been conducted to study the tidal influences on the internal dynamics of a galaxy (Miller and Smith 1982). The present first cut at the general problem treats effects of the cluster's tidal potential on the pattern motion and observable properties of a galaxy (shape, density contours, velocity fields, velocity dispersions) for a fixed external potential. The first-order cluster force field is balanced by the galaxy's acceleration in the real cluster, leaving tidal terms as the leading terms in a Taylor series expansion of the cluster force field about the center of the galaxy. The cluster tidal force field is usually stretching along a line toward the cluster center and compressive at right angles.

Type
VI. Mergers
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 100: Internal Kinematics and Dynamics of Galaxies , 1983 , pp. 351 - 352
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983 

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