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The orbital evolution of satellite galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Yoshikazu Hashimoto
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, School of Science, University of Tokyo Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Junichiro Makino
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, School of Science, University of Tokyo Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

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In most of previous theoretical and numerical works on the orbital evolution of satellite galaxies, the classical Chandrasekhar's formula has been adopted. However, a recent direct N-body result “(van den Bosh et al. 1999)” demonstrated that the orbital evolution is rather different from what is predicted from the Chandrasekhar's formula. The reason for this discrepancy, however, was not clear.

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Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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