Tidally affected galaxies modelled as Maclaurin spheroids

dc.contributor.author	Som Sunder, G
dc.contributor.author	Kochhar, R. K
dc.contributor.author	Alladin, S. M
dc.date.accessioned	2006-04-13T06:33:34Z
dc.date.available	2006-04-13T06:33:34Z
dc.date.issued	1989-12
dc.identifier.citation	BASI, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 141-144	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/967
dc.description.abstract	Tensor virial equations and impulse approximation are used to study the tidal transfer of energy and angular momentum to a test galaxy, modeled as a Maclaurin spheroid. It is shown that the fractional increase in kinetic energy falls off with increasing eccentricity, whereas the fractional increase in angular momentum squared rises till e = 0.83 and then falls off. The tidally transferred angular momentum is about an axis lying in the equatorial plane of the spheroidal test galaxy	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Astronomical Society of Indian	en
dc.subject	Galaxies	en
dc.subject	Tidal interaction	en
dc.title	Tidally affected galaxies modelled as Maclaurin spheroids	en
dc.type	Article	en