Science & ResearchAug 6, 2026
Clump Migration in Disk Galaxies: Revisiting Chandrasekhar's Dynamical Friction
Massive stellar clumps are thought to migrate toward galactic centers through dynamical friction, contributing to bulge growth and the structural evolution of disk galaxies.
Massive stellar clumps are thought to migrate toward galactic centers through dynamical friction, contributing to bulge growth and the structural evolution of disk galaxies. While the classical Chandrasekhar formalism is widely used to estimate clump inspiral times, its validity…
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