Search Results - "Wu, Xufen"
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Energy Evolution in the Progenitor of Galaxy Shells: A Semi-analytical Model
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2024)“…Abstract The stellar shells surrounding an elliptical galaxy, as remnants of a dwarf galaxy disrupted during merging, reveal the distribution of energy and…”
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Shape Asymmetries and the Relation between Lopsidedness and Radial Alignment in Simulated Galaxies
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-01-2024)“…Abstract Galaxies are observed to be lopsided, meaning that they are more massive and more extended along one side than the opposite side. In this work, we…”
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The mass and angular momentum distribution of simulated massive early-type galaxies to large radii
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2014)“…We study the dark and luminous mass distributions, circular velocity curves (CVCs), line-of-sight kinematics and angular momenta for a sample of 42…”
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Milky Way potentials in cold dark matter and MOdified Newtonian Dynamics. Is the Large Magellanic Cloud on a bound orbit?
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2008)“…We compute the Milky Way potential in different cold dark matter (CDM) based models, and compare these with the MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) framework…”
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A common Milgromian acceleration scale in nature
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On the Separation Between Baryonic and Dark Matter: Evidence for Phantom Dark Matter?
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2009)“…The recent years have seen combined measurements of X-ray and (weak) lensing contours for colliding galaxy clusters such as, for instance, the famous 'Bullet'…”
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The Galactic Potential and the Asymmetric Distribution of Hypervelocity Stars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2009)“…In recent years several hypervelocity stars (HVSs) have been observed in the halo of our Galaxy. Such HVSs have possibly been ejected from the Galactic center…”
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N-body simulations for testing the stability of triaxial galaxies in MOND
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-06-2009)“…We perform a stability test of triaxial models in Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) using N-body simulations. The triaxial models considered here have…”
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Galactic rotation curves, the baryon-to-dark-halo-mass relation and space–time scale invariance
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2015)“…Low-acceleration space-time scale invariant dynamics (SID) predicts two fundamental correlations known from observational galactic dynamics: the baryonic…”
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Loss of Mass and Stability of Galaxies in Modified Newtonian Dynamics
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-08-2007)“…The self-binding energy and stability of a galaxy in MOND-based gravity are curiously decreasing functions of its center-of-mass acceleration (of the order of…”
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Formation of collisional ring galaxies in Milgromian dynamics
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (13-01-2024)“…ABSTRACT Ring galaxies are rare in the Universe. A head-on or off-centre collision between an intruder galaxy and a disc galaxy leads to a collisional ring…”
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Self-consistent Models of Triaxial Galaxies in MOND Gravity
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-04-2008)“…The Bekenstein-Milgrom gravity theory with a modified Poisson equation is tested here for the existence of triaxial equilibrium solutions. Using the…”
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The kinematics of star clusters undergoing gas expulsion in Newtonian and Milgromian dynamics
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Gas Expulsion in MOND: The Possible Origin of Diffuse Globular Clusters and Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-01-2018)“…We study the evolution of star clusters located in the outer regions of a galaxy undergoing a sudden mass loss through gas expulsion in the framework of…”
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Collisions of Young Disk Galaxies in the Early Universe
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2022)“…Abstract In the local universe, disk galaxies are generally well evolved and Toomre stable. Their collisions with satellite galaxies naturally produce ring…”
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The specific frequency and the globular cluster formation efficiency in Milgromian dynamics
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-10-2013)“…Previous studies of globular cluster (GC) systems show that there appears to be a universal specific GC formation efficiency η which relates the total mass of…”
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A new formulation of the external field effect in MOND and numerical simulations of ultra-diffuse dwarf galaxies – application to NGC 1052-DF2 and NGC 1052-DF4
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-08-2019)“…The ultra-diffuse dwarf galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 (DF2) has 10 (11) measured globular clusters (GCs) with a line-of-sight velocity dispersion of |$\sigma…”
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Does the galaxy NGC1052–DF2 falsify Milgromian dynamics?
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The dynamical phase transitions of stellar systems and the corresponding kinematics
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-10-2013)“…External fields in Milgromian dynamics (MD or MOND) break the Strong Equivalence Principle (SEP) and change the dynamics of self-bound stellar systems moving…”
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Lopsidedness of Self-consistent Galaxies Caused by the External Field Effect of Clusters
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2017)“…Adopting Schwarzschild's orbit-superposition technique, we construct a series of self-consistent galaxy models, embedded in the external field of galaxy…”
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