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arxiv: 0908.3478 · v1 · submitted 2009-08-24 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO

The Automatic Galaxy Collision Software

Beverly J. Smith (1) , Chris Carver (1) , Phillip Pfeiffer (2) , Sam Perkins (2) , Jason Barkanic (2) , Steve Fritts (2) , Derek Southerland (2) , Dinikar Manchikalapudi (2)
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Matt Baker (2) John Luckey (2) Coral Franklin (2) Amanda Moffett (1 3) Curtis Struck (4) ((1)Dept of Physics Astronomy East Tennessee State University. (2)Computer Information Science Dept East Tennessee State University. (3)Now at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. (4)Dept of Physics Iowa State University.)
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The key to understanding the physical processes that occur during galaxy interactions is dynamical modeling, and especially the detailed matching of numerical models to specific systems. To make modeling interacting galaxies more efficient, we have constructed the `Automatic Galaxy Collision' (AGC) code, which requires less human intervention in finding good matches to data. We present some preliminary results from this code for the well-studied system Arp 284 (NGC 7714/5), and address questions of uniqueness of solutions.

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