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Observational Evidence for Mergers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
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Theory has long suggested that dynamical friction between colliding galaxies must lead to mergers. The problem for observers has been to find which galaxies are mergers. I shall first review the available evidence for mergers in various kinds of galaxies, then propose a tentative classification scheme for mergers, and finally discuss mergers in giant ellipticals and their relation to the evolution and perhaps even the formation of ellipticals.
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- VI. Mergers
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 100: Internal Kinematics and Dynamics of Galaxies , 1983 , pp. 319 - 329
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- Copyright © Reidel 1983
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