Studying the physical properties of tidal features – I. Extracting morphological substructure in CANDELS observations and VELA simulations
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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz872
Abstract: The role of major mergers in galaxy evolution remains a key open question. Existing empirical merger identification methods use non-parametric and subjective visual classifications that can pose systematic challenges to constraining merger histories. As a… read more here.
Keywords: merger; physical properties; properties tidal; studying physical ... See more keywords