While it is by no means obvious that tides are the sole or even the most important process at play in M51, the present review focuses on the interesting possibility that nearly all the structure in M51 originated as a consequence of its tidal interaction with NGC 5195.
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Hernquist, L. (1990). Dynamical Status of M51. In Dynamics and Interactions of Galaxies (pp. 108–117). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75273-5_21
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