Transformations of Galaxies. II.

Dwarf Formation

This sequence shows the formation of the most massive bound object in the tidal tails of encounter A. Here stars and gas which wind up in the ``dwarf'' are shown in blue and green, respectively, while other disk and bulge stars are shown in red; halo matter is not shown.










Joshua E. Barnes (barnes@zeno.ifa.hawaii.edu)


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