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Towards an Interaction Model of M81, M82 and NGC 3077

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

R.C. Thomson
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB, UK
S. Laine
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB, UK
A. Turnbull
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB, UK

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Thomson (1992) suggested that the Cen A group of galaxies may be the result of one interaction. Here we report full N-body simulations made to study this proposal in the M81-M82-NGC 3077 group.

Type
Tidal Interactions
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1999 

References

Thomson, R.C. 1992, MNRAS, 257, 689 Google Scholar