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Comparing Various Approaches to Simulating the Formation of Shell Galaxies

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Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later

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The model of a radial minor merger proposed by [Quinn, ApJ 279, 596 (1984)], which successfully reproduces the observed regular shell systems in shell galaxies, is ideal for a test-particle simulation. We compare such a simulation with a self-consistent one. They agree very well in positions of the first generation of shells but potentially important effects – dynamical friction and gradual decay of the dwarf galaxy – are not present in the test-particle model, therefore we look for a proper way to include them.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the support by the grant No. 205/08/H005 (Czech Science Foundation), the project SVV 261301 (Charles University in Prague), EAS grant covering registration fee at JENAM 2010, the grant MUNI/A/0968/2009 (Masaryk University in Brno), the grant LC06014 ‘Center for Theoretical Astrophysics’ (Czech Ministry of Education) and research plan AV0Z10030501 (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic).

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  1. Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

    I. Ebrová

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    I. Ebrová, B. Jungwiert & M. Křížek

  3. Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    K. Bartošková

  4. ESO Santiago, Santiago, Chile

    L. Jílková

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  2. Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Moenchhofstrasse 12 - 14, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

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Ebrová, I., Bartošková, K., Jungwiert, B., Jílková, L., Křížek, M. (2011). Comparing Various Approaches to Simulating the Formation of Shell Galaxies. In: Ferreras, I., Pasquali, A. (eds) Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20285-8_40

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