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9780387853703

Galaxy Collisions

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    9780387853703

  • ISBN10:

    0387853707

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-02-03
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag
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Summary

The spectacular images of galaxy collisions capture the imagination. This book will show what is out there in the universe, what it’s like in other galaxies, what they might look like, and how cosmic processes might affect life in other solar systems. It will explain crucial stages in the development of physical structure in the universe, and the effect of galaxy scale processes. Professor Struck will explore all the issues surrounding galaxy collisions. He will begin with a brief broad review of the background on galaxies, the history of their discovery, and how this has been driven by steadily improving technology. Chapters 2 gives details of the early stages of different types of galaxy collision - Rings of Fire, Tidal Swings and Retrograde and Sideways Reels - while Chapter 3 describes collisions between galaxies of very different masses: minor merger or dwarf destruction. Chapter 4 covers ultra-luminous infrared galaxies and major mergers and Chapter 5 briefly examines the techniques used for computer simulation results and how increasing computer capacity has affected the development of this field. The following chapter looks at understanding the physical processes of triggered star formation and nuclear activity.Chapters 7-9 look at the broader view of cosmological structure growth which determines the environment and conditions in which galaxy collisions occur. In the densest environments, this process repeats itself on the larger scale of galaxy clusters. The concluding chapter considers what a galaxy collision looks like from a solar system like ours. Although the galaxy is completely restructured and the night sky view would change greatly over the course of several hundred million years, the direct effects on our planet would be few and infrequent, with only a small probability of being truly catastrophic. These issues will be explored along with the ideas that galaxies must reach a certain evolutionary "maturity" before they can even form solar systems, and that there are habitable zones within galaxies. Thus, galaxy scale processes, like collisions, can determine the fate of life on Earth-like planets.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. xi
List of Illustrationsp. xiii
Exploring the world of galaxiesp. 1
Finding the galaxiesp. 3
Galaxy properties: classification and evolving viewsp. 11
Modern views: universal classes and sealingsp. 18
Discovering collisions and interactionsp. 23
Collision basicsp. 27
Head-on collisions and rings of firep. 31
Early stage archetypesp. 31
Forging the rare ringsp. 32
Why rings?p. 40
How precise a bullseye? Angles and offsetsp. 41
Taffy galaxies and shovels: companions with gas disksp. 44
Twice-made ringsp. 47
Bejeweled ringsp. 49
The mysterious cartwheel: prototype or anomaly?p. 51
Other ways to make ringsp. 53
Swinging on by: the tidal twistsp. 57
Tides near and farp. 57
Discovering the whirlpool spiralsp. 62
Into the tidal whirlpool: understanding the mechanismsp. 64
The foaming wavesp. 68
The eye galaxiesp. 71
Making barsp. 72
Probing the darkness with tails and dwarfsp. 75
Retrograde encounters: dancing backwardsp. 86
Major mergers and their colossal consequencesp. 93
Ellipticals from mergers?p. 93
A sticky aside on dynamical frictionp. 96
Bringing a little data to the subjectp. 98
Relaxing in the merger: quickly and violently!p. 100
Starbursts, super-starbursts and mergersp. 103
A new generation of merger studiesp. 110
Starbursts, winds and nuclear activityp. 114
Growing quasarsp. 119
Merger models with feedbackp. 123
Ellipticals and mergers againp. 130
What happens to the little guy: minor mergersp. 139
Classifications and destructive processesp. 139
Global dynamical friction and anti-frictionp. 145
Cumulative effectsp. 149
The secret of fire: triggered star formationp. 155
Counting young starsp. 155
The spreading firep. 162
Attacking the flames with the latest top. 167
Glowing embers: induced star cluster formationp. 170
Fading embers: star cluster disruptionp. 178
How to start the firep. 182
Forecasting firesp. 187
How did it burn?p. 195
Not always in a galaxy far, far awayp. 201
Our Local Group of galaxiesp. 201
Collisions here and now: the Magellanic Cloudsp. 203
Collisions now and then: contrails in the halop. 215
... And those yet to comep. 226
A wider viewp. 233
In the beginning ...p. 233
Many different evolutionary pathways in groupsp. 239
The bright lights of the galaxy metropolisp. 251
Epilogue: the galacto-biology of collisionsp. 261
Glossaryp. 1273
Resourcesp. 277
Indexp. 279
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