Journal article
Angular momentum transport and disc morphology in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of galaxy formation
Abstract
We perform controlled N-body/smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of disc galaxy formation by cooling a rotating gaseous mass distribution inside equilibrium cuspy spherical and triaxial dark matter haloes. We systematically study the angular momentum transport and the disc morphology as we increase the number of dark matter and gas particles from 104 to 106, and decrease the gravitational softening from 2 kpc to 50 pc. The angular …
Authors
Kaufmann T; Mayer L; Wadsley J; Stadel J; Moore B
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 375, No. 1, pp. 53–67
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
February 11, 2007
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11314.x
ISSN
0035-8711