Bibcode
Peña, K.; Arias, V.; Casas-Miranda, R.
Bibliographical reference
XII Latin American IAU Regional Meeting (Eds. G. Magris, G. Bruzual, & L. Carigi) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 35, pp. 296 (2009) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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2009
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Description
We study the evolution of initially spherical satellites of a galaxy
that resembles the Milky Way using N-Body simulations. The initial
satellites come from a Plummer sphere model with 10^6 particles, they
are dark matter free and have typical masses of 10^7 - 10^9~M_&sun;. The
satellite is bounded by a galactic potential: A Miyamoto-Nagai potential
for the disc, a Hernquist potential for the bulge and a logaritmic
potential for the dark matter halo. The initial satellite is introduced
into the potential with certain apogalactic distance and velocity. We
present a map of initial conditions for the orbit that lead to disrupted
satellites, using only those that remain bound with 1% of the initial
mass for a long enough period, which could be interpreted as dSph's by
an observer on earth.