Bibcode
González-García, A. C.; Balcells, M.
Referencia bibliográfica
Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: Intense Life in the Suburbs. Edited by Antonaldo Diaferio, IAU Colloquium #195, p.524-526
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2004
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Descripción
Modern kinematic diagnostics from high-S/N spectroscopy provide useful
tests on the collisionless merger hypothesis for the formation of
elliptical galaxies. Bender, Saglia & Gerhard (1994) show that the
skewness of the line-of-sight velocity distributions (LOSVD) has
opposite sign to the rotation velocity and follows a distinct pattern.
Previous N-body experiments (Bendo & Barnes 2000, Naab & Burkert
2001) disagree as to whether the relation is reproduced by the models.