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N-Body Simulations of Galaxies: Mass-Loss from Old Stellar Populations and the Mass Budget of the Central Kiloparsec

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Bruno Jungwiert
Bruno Jungwiert*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California – Riverside, USA
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Abstract

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We give estimates of the global mass-loss rate from bulge stars and show that this supply of gas is not negligible for the mass budget of the central kiloparsec in comparison with mass inflow rate predicted by N-body simulations of barred galaxies and mergers.

Keywords

galaxies: kinematics and dynamicsgalaxies: evolutiongalaxies: bulgesgalaxies: activestars: mass-lossmethods: N-body simulations
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S235: Galaxy Evolution Across the Hubble Time , August 2006 , pp. 314
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

References

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