Elliptical Galaxy Dynamics
Abstract
A review of elliptical galaxy dynamics, with a focus on nonintegrable models. Topics covered include torus construction; modelling axisymmetric galaxies; triaxiality; collisionless relaxation; and collective instabilities.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- February 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1086/316307
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9810371
- Bibcode:
- 1999PASP..111..129M
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 97 Latex pages, 14 Postscript figures, uses aastex. To appear in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, February 1999