The simulations described here provide a detailed, quantitative way of probing the dynamical evolution of galaxies in clusters. Future work will concentrate on producing a simulated survey of clusters covering a wide mass range in different cosmological models to improve statistics on the BCGs and the elliptical population along with general effects of tidal interactions on galaxy morphology over cosmic history. In principle, these effects depend strongly on the cosmological model so detailed comparison with the observations will provide interesting constraints and consistency checks on these models.
Coincidence? Is NGC 1365 a harassed galaxy in our local neighbourhood?
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