Hydrodynamical simulations of the triggering of nuclear activities by minor mergers of galaxies

• 作 者: Chao Yang Jun-Qiang Ge You-Jun
• 机 构: NationalAstronomicalObservatories,SchoolofAstronomyandSpaceSciences,CASKeyLaboratoryforComputational
• 出 处: 天文和天体物理学研究:英文版
• 发表日期: 2019年12期
• 关键词: galaxies:binary quasars:general methods:n-body simulations
• 基金项目: This work is supported by the National Key Program for Science and Technology Research and Development(No.2016YFA0400704),the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11690024 and 11873056),th

Major mergers of galaxies are considered to be an efficient way to trigger Active Galactic Nuclei and are thought to be responsible for the phenomenon of quasars. This has however recently been challenged by observations of a large number of low luminosit