Galaxies in extreme environments
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Abstract: Galaxies are a lot like people. If you pay attention to someone’s accent, mannerism, music taste, and cuisine preference — you can infer something about their culture, their heritage, their ancestry. On the same vein, by inspecting a galaxy’s morphology, kinematics and chemical composition — one can infer information about its assembly history, its interaction history. The first part of this talk will focus on extreme galactic collisions, where a small satellite crashes onto the baryonic body of a massive neighbor and survives.
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