... With the growing realization of the importance of interactions in the lives of galaxies, as demonstrated by the discovery of tidal debris streams and plumes in, e.g., the Milky Way, M31, M81, and NGC4013, the old star distribution merits reexamination. ...
... long-standing questions ab out the origin and evolution of our Galaxy, from a quantitative census of its stellar p opulations, to a detailed characterization of its substructures (as, for instance, tidalstreams in the Halo, see Ibata & Gibson, 2007, Sci ...
... Brown, T., et al., "The Detailed Star Formation History in the Spheroid, Outer Disk, and TidalStream of the Andromeda Galaxy," 2006, ApJ, 652, 323. ...
[
Текст
]
Ссылки http://www.stsci.edu/institute/atlast/documents/Submitted_proposal_TEAM_DISTN.pdf -- 2141.9 Кб -- 14.01.2009 Похожие документы
... Applications include the study of faint circum-galactic regions in nearby galaxies (e.g. tidalstreams), intergalactic clouds, dwarf galaxies, and galaxies and proto-galaxies at high redshifts (for which the surface brightness scales inversely as the ...
[
Текст
]
Ссылки http://www.stsci.edu/hst/wfc3/documents/published/WFC3-WhitePaper-2001.pdf -- 2360.8 Кб -- 30.12.2009 Похожие документы
... inst itute/sd/talks/C olloquia for updates Wednesday March 19, 2008 Snezana Stanimirovic, UW - Madison The Tip of the Magellanic Stream: GALFA's View More than 40 years since its discovery, the Magellanic Stream (MS) still provides many surprises ...
[
Текст
]
Ссылки http://www.stsci.edu/institute/smo/events/colloquia/2008/ColloquiaMarch19Stanimirovic.pdf -- 215.3 Кб -- 05.02.2013 Похожие документы
... We plan to use SIM to measure accurate proper motions of stars in the tidal debris streams of several Milky Way dSph satellites as a precise means to measure the Galactic potential as a function of radius in the halo. ...
... larger distances than is afforded by tidalstreams of satellite galaxies such as the ... kpc, and there is well documented evidence of disrupted satellites and tidalstreams ...
[
Текст
]
Ссылки http://www.stsci.edu/hst/proposing/docs/exp_abstract-catalogs/cycle17-abstract-catalog.pdf -- 314.8 Кб -- 30.05.2008 Похожие документы
... The same tidal force believed to be responsible for the Magellanic Stream may also be responsible for the fact that the LMC is not circular, but elongated (see top of the page). ...
... of the elliptical ; the disk of the Sp is disrupted after the first close passage. (ii) In encounters with high mass ratios (100:1), the central part of the disk survives tidal disruption and a fraction of gas streams toward the center of the spiral ...
... The strong gravitational forces of a large galaxy can rip apart a small galaxy, producing loose streams of stars that astronomers call tidal debris. ...