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Dynamical Modelling of Hot Stellar Systems
David Merritt
Estimation of the distribution function f and potential Phi of hot stellar systems from kinematical data is discussed. When the functional forms of f and Phi are not specified a pr…
astro-ph1995
Equilibrium and Stability of Elliptical Galaxies
David Merritt, Tema Fridman
Recent work on the equilibrium and stability of ellipsoidal stellar systems is reviewed. The absence of constant-density cores in early-type galaxies implies that chaos and high-or…
astro-ph1995
Cluster Dynamics and Cluster Masses
David Merritt, Karl Gebhardt
In spite of the promise of new techniques for constraining the mass distribution in galaxy clusters, much remains to be learned from galaxy orbital velocities. This article reviews…