Triaxial orbit-based model of NGC 4365
Abstract
We have developed an orbit-based method for constructing triaxial models of elliptical galaxies, which fit their observed surface brightness and kinematics (van den Bosch et al). We have tested this extended Schwarzschild method (1979) against analytical models with general distribution functions (DF) and find that we can recover the DF (van de Ven et al). Here, we present a model of NGC 4365.
- Publication:
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Black Holes from Stars to Galaxies -- Across the Range of Masses
- Pub Date:
- April 2007
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- Bibcode:
- 2007IAUS..238..331V
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: elliptical and lenticular;
- cD;
- galaxies: kinematics and dynamics