Spin angular momentum of tidally affected galaxies

dc.contributor.author	Namboodiri, P. M. S
dc.contributor.author	Kochhar, R. K
dc.date.accessioned	2008-07-11T06:53:46Z
dc.date.available	2008-07-11T06:53:46Z
dc.date.issued	1991-06
dc.identifier.citation	Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 250, No.3, pp. 541 - 543	en
dc.identifier.issn	0035-8711
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/2633
dc.description.abstract	Numerical experiments have been performed to study the transfer of angular momentum to an initially non-rotating spherical galaxy as it undergoes a collision with a point mass perturber moving in a relative orbit of constant pericentric distance. The variation of the acquired spin of the galaxy with time is smooth in the case of open orbit encounters, whereas it is irregular in the case of bound orbit encounters. The induced rotation of the test galaxy is in the same sense as that of the initial orbital angular momentum of the pair.	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Royal Astronomical Society	en
dc.relation.uri	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991MNRAS.250..541N	en
dc.subject	Angular momentum	en
dc.subject	Galactic rotation	en
dc.subject	Galactic structure	en
dc.subject	Gravitational effects	en
dc.subject	Astronomical models	en
dc.subject	Galactic mass	en
dc.subject	Perturbation theory	en
dc.title	Spin angular momentum of tidally affected galaxies	en
dc.type	Article	en