천문학회보 (The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society)
- 제38권2호
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- Pages.51.2-51.2
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- 2013
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- 1226-2692(pISSN)
Statistical Analysis of Fly-by interactions between Galaxies via Cosmological Simulations
- An, Sung-Ho (Department of Astronomy & Center of Galaxy Evolution Research, Yonsei University) ;
- Kim, Jeonghwan (Department of Astronomy & Center of Galaxy Evolution Research, Yonsei University) ;
- Yun, Kiyun (Department of Astronomy & Center of Galaxy Evolution Research, Yonsei University) ;
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Kim, Juhan
(Korea Institute for Advanced Study) ;
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Yoon, Suk-Jin
(Department of Astronomy & Center of Galaxy Evolution Research, Yonsei University)
- 발행 : 2013.10.08
초록
Galactic fly-by interactions are believed to be far more frequent than direct mergers, acting as hidden drivers of galaxy evolution. We perform a tree-particle-mesh code GOTPM, and investigate the statistical properties of the fly-by interactions as functions of halo masses and ambient environments. Based on the total energy of the two halos of interest, impulsive fly-by pairs are identified from eventual merger candidates. We find three obvious results as follows: (1) Halos in the high-dense environment experience more frequent mergers and fly-by encounters than those in the low-dense region; (2) In the massive halos, both merger and fly-by fractions evolve more dramatically with time than those in dwarfs; and (3) The fly-by fraction decreases as approaching the present epoch, in contrast to the increase of the merger fraction.
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