Star formation losses due to tidal debris in `hierarchical' galaxy formation
Bottom-up hierarchical formation of dark matter haloes is not as monotonic as implicitly assumed in the Press-Schechter formalism: matter can be ejected into tidal tails, shells or low density `atmospheres'. The implications that the possible truncation of star formation in these tidal `debris&...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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