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Tidal Tails and Galaxy Evolution

V. P. Reshetnikov, N. Ya. Sotnikova

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0009473

Abstract

We review recent results on the tidal structures of spiral galaxies. Topics included are general characteristics of tails; kinematics of tidal structures and dark haloes of host galaxies; frequency of tidal distortions at z~1.

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