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Warps and cosmic infall
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Warps and cosmic infall

Ing-Guey Jiang and James Binney
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.303(1)
02/1999

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Galaxies: Haloes Galaxies: Kinematics and dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science
N-body simulations show that when infall reorientates the outer parts of a galactic halo by several degrees per Gyr, a self-gravitating disc that is embedded in the halo develops an integral-sign warp that is comparable in amplitude to observed warps. Studies of angular-momentum acquisition suggest that the required rate of halo reorientation is realistic for galaxies like the Milky Way.

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