Bibcode
Tapia, M. T.; Balcells, M.; Eliche-Moral, M. C.
Referencia bibliográfica
Stellar Populations – Planning for the Next Decade, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 262, p. 432-433
Fecha de publicación:
4
2010
Número de citas
2
Número de citas referidas
2
Descripción
We perform a sample of N-body simulations of a minor merger between a
Milky Way type galaxy and a satellite, which is density scaled version
of the primary galaxy. In this suite of collisionless runs we change the
value of some critical parameters like the luminous mass ratio between
the two galaxies (1 : 6, 1 : 9), the type of orbit (direct or prograde)
and the number of particles (185,000, 555,000 and 1,850,000). We
estimate the disc thickening by measuring the median of the vertical
scale and we find that that the merger increases the scale height in a
factor of ≈2 in all the remnants.