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Observational Evidence for Mergers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Francois Schweizer
Francois Schweizer*
Affiliation:
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015

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Theory has long suggested that dynamical friction between colliding galaxies must lead to mergers. The problem for observers has been to find which galaxies are mergers. I shall first review the available evidence for mergers in various kinds of galaxies, then propose a tentative classification scheme for mergers, and finally discuss mergers in giant ellipticals and their relation to the evolution and perhaps even the formation of ellipticals.

Type
VI. Mergers
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 100: Internal Kinematics and Dynamics of Galaxies , 1983 , pp. 319 - 329
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Copyright © Reidel 1983 

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