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Table 4.

Initialisation conditions for the simulation.

Variable Value Units
Number of galaxies 2 n.a
N [20,10] n.a
Outer radius 30 kpc
Central mass 1011 M
Galaxy mass ratios [1, 1] n.a

Rotations around x-axis [−17π/36, π/18] radians
Rotations around y-axis [0, 0] radians
Rotations around z-axis [−π/18, 0] radians

Galaxy 1 velocity factors [1.32, 1.03] n.a
Galaxy 2 velocity factors [1.32, 1.03] n.a

Galaxy 1 translation [−30, −25, 0] kpc
Galaxy 2 translation [+30, +25, 0] kpc

Galaxy 1 group velocity [50, 5, 1] pc Myr−1
Galaxy 2 group velocity [−125, −5, −1] pc Myr−1

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