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Title: Tidal transfer of energy and angular momentum to spheroidal galaxies
Authors: Som Sunder, G
Kochhar, R. K
Alladin, S. M
Keywords: Angular momentum
Elliptical galaxies
Energy transfer
Momentum transfer
Kinetic energy
Tensors
Tides
Virial theorem
Issue Date: Jun-1990
Publisher: Royal Astronomical Society
Citation: Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 244, No. 3, pp. 424 - 426
Abstract: The tidal transfer of energy and angular momentum to a spheriodal test galaxy is studied using tensor virial equations within the framework of impulse approximation. The tidally introduced angular momentum is always along an axis perpendicular to the symmetry axis. It is shown that, in the case of an initially non-rotating galaxy, more energy is pumped along either of the equatorial axes than along the symmetry axis.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2248/3684
ISSN: 0035-8711
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