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.

97 Latex pages, 14 Postscript figures, uses aastex. To appear in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, February 1999

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• Dynamical Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies with Central Singularities
• Instabilities of a family of oblate stellar spheroids
• A map for eccentric orbits in triaxial potentials
• Numerical stability of a family of Osipkov-Merrit models
• Cusps without chaos
• Cusps and Triaxiality
• Phase mixing in time-independent Hamiltonian systems
• Periodic Orbits in Triaxial Galaxies with Weak Cusps
• Invariant distributions and collisionless equilibria
• Density cusps: restrictions on non-axisymmetric models

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