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EAS Publications Series
Volume 24, 2007
CRAL-2006. Chemodynamics: From First Stars to Local Galaxies
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Page(s) | 133 - 138 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2007020 | |
Published online | 21 April 2007 |
E. Emsellem, H. Wozniak, G. Massacrier, J.-F. Gonzalez, J. Devriendt and N. Champavert (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 24 (2007) 133-138
Chemodynamical Simulations of Elliptical Galaxies
1
University of Central Lancashire,
Centre for Astrophysics, Preston, PR1 2HE, UK
2
Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, USA
Corresponding authors: bkgibson@uclan.ac.uk ; psanchez-blazquez@uclan.ac.uk ; scourty@uclan.ac.uk ; dkawata@ociw.edu
We review recent developments in the field of chemodynamical simulations of elliptical galaxies, highlighting (in an admittedly biased fashion) the work conducted with our cosmological N-body/SPH code GCD+. We have demonstrated previously the recovery of several primary integrated early-type system scaling relations (e.g. colour- magnitude relation, LX − TX − [Fe/H]X) when employing a phenomenological AGN heating scheme in conjunction with a self-consistent treatment of star formation, supernovae feedback, radiative cooling, chemical enrichment, and stellar/X-ray population synthesis. Here we emphasise characteristics derived from the full spatial information contained within the simulated dataset, including stellar and coronal morphologies, metallicity distribution functions, and abundance gradients.
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