Mergers of galaxies in clusters: Monte Carlo simulation of mass and angular momentum distribution
| dc.creator | Krivitsky, D. S. | |
| dc.creator | Kontorovich, V. M. | |
| dc.date | 1997-03-04 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-25T12:55:59Z | |
| dc.description | A Monte Carlo simulation of mergers in clusters of galaxies is carried out. An ``explosive'' character of the merging process (an analog of phase transition), suggested earlier by Cavaliere et al. (1991), Kontorovich et al. (1992), is confirmed. In particular, a giant object similar to cD-galaxy is formed in a comparatively short time as a result of mergers. Mass and angular momentum distribution function for galaxies is calculated. An intermediate asymptotics of the mass function is close to a power law with the exponent $α\approx2$. It may correspond to recent observational data for steep faint end of the luminosity function. The angular momentum distribution formed by mergers is close to Gaussian, the rms dimensionless angular momentum $S/(GM^3R)^{1/2}$ being approximately independent of mass, which is in accordance with observational data. | |
| dc.description | 10 pages, LaTeX 2.09, PicTeX. Uses l-aa.sty, prepictex.tex, pictex.tex, postpictex.tex. Inserts four external PostScript files. To appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9703017 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9703017 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/13017 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Mergers of galaxies in clusters: Monte Carlo simulation of mass and angular momentum distribution | |
| dc.type | text |