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Origin of the galaxy morphology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

N. Nakasato*
Affiliation:
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Möchhofstrasse 12-14, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

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In the current most plausible Cold Dark Matter (CDM) cosmology, larger halos increase their mass by the progressive mergers of smaller clumps. Due to these progressive merger events, galaxies have formed and evolved. Such merger events could trigger star bursts depending on mass of a merging object. In other words, star formation history reflects the strength of the interaction between a galaxy and merging objects. Also, a several merger events strongly affect the development of the morphology of galaxies as assumed in semi-analytic models. In the most advanced semi-analytic models, N-body simulations of dark matter particles are used to obtain the merging history of halos. By combining the description of radiative cooling, hydrodynamics and star formation with the obtained merging history, such models successfully have explained the various qualitative predictions. Here, we show the results of similar approach but using a fullly numerical model. In contrast to the semi-analytic models, we use our high resolution Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) models. With our SPH code, we try to tackle the problem of the galaxy morphology. We have done a several handful high-resolution SPH simulations and analyzed the merging history of such models. Accordingly, we can see the relation between the obtained morphology and the merging history or other physical properties of the model.

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