Decay of galaxy satellite orbits by dynamical friction

DOI10.1093/MNRAS/224.2.349MaRDI QIDQ3751062zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tj. R. Bontekoe, T. S. van Albada

Publication date 1987

Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/224.2.349

zbMATH Keywords

particle distributionthree-dimensional modellocal processdynamical frictionChandrasekhar's formuladecay of the orbitgalaxy's mass distributionglobal responseslarge galaxysatellite galaxystreaming motions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Celestial mechanics (70F15) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-08)

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