Environmental Mechanisms Shaping the Nature of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies: The View of Computer Simulations

We review numerical works carried out over the last decade on the role of environmental mechanisms in shaping nature of the faintest galaxies known, dwarf spheroidals (dSphs). The combination of tidally induced morphological transformation, termed tidal stirring, with mass loss due to tidal and ram...

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Main Author: Lucio Mayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2010-01-01
Series:Advances in Astronomy
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/278434
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