Building stable stellar systems with ρ as the only datum

Schwarzschild's method to set up a model galaxy is most useful when the distribution in velocity space is unknown. Nevertheless, one has to know beforehand which kind of orbits are spawned by the potential of the model. Moreover, although the system thus generated is in equilibrium, it is not n...

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Autor principal: Carpintero, Daniel Diego
Formato: Articulo Comunicacion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/145337
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Sumario:Schwarzschild's method to set up a model galaxy is most useful when the distribution in velocity space is unknown. Nevertheless, one has to know beforehand which kind of orbits are spawned by the potential of the model. Moreover, although the system thus generated is in equilibrium, it is not necessarily stable. Here, we present a new method that allows to build up a stable stellar system without any previous knowledge of its distribution in velocity space.