Banshee's Thesis


My thesis investigates this tidal warping of the MWG by the LMC, using full n-body simulations to follow the evolution of a MWG-like system from t = -5 Gyr to the present.

Woah! Its done! Read the Final Revision

Milky Way Galaxy: M = ~6 x 10^10 M* visible, R = ~15kpc, h = 500pc, Vc = 220 km/s
LMC: D = ~50kpc, Dmax = ~100kpc, M = ~10^10 M*


Satellite ModelA

59 pages of lovely prose, 19 figures.
7 analysis programs to process raw data.
untold megabytes of data.

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References

Misc

An animated GIF taken from the center of one of the investigated disk syustems (700k).

N-body references