Published May 15, 1979
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Journal article
Puffing up flat galaxies by rapid stripping and the formation of SO galaxies
Description
Sandage and Visvanathan have recently argued that the predominance of large bulges among SO galaxies as opposed to normal spiral galaxies precludes their formation as stripped spirals. Modeling flat galaxies as Maclaurin spheroids, we show here that rapid mass loss (followed by violent relaxation) can lead to the puffing up of an originally flat galaxy. Hence SO galaxies may have been formed by stripping spirals
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Astrophys. J., Lett. Ed.
- Journal Volume
- 230
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Series
- Astrophys. J., Lett. Ed.
- Journal Page Range
- L33-L35
- ISSN
- 0571-7248
Conference
- Title
- Symposium on high energy physics.
- Dates
- 26 - 28 Oct 1978.
- Place
- Argonne, IL, USA.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 11495667
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; GALACTIC EVOLUTION; GALAXIES; GALAXY CLUSTERS; MASS; ROTATION; SPHEROIDS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-781095--.