Dwarf-spheroidal satellites: are they of tidal origin?
arXiv:astro-ph/0701289 · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11438.x
Abstract
The Milky Way and Andromeda must have formed through an initial epoch of sub-structure merging. As a result of fundamental physical conservation laws tidal-dwarf galaxies (TDGs) have likely been produced. Here we show that such TDGs appear, after a Hubble-time of dynamical evolution in the host dark-matter halo, as objects that resemble known dSph satellite galaxies. We discuss the possibility that some of the Milky Way's satellites may be of tidal origin.
7 pages, 3 figures; acc. for pub. in MNRAS