Order and chaos in self-consistent galactic models

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 83, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 191-204

  Contopoulos, G ^a   Voglis, N ^a   Kalapotharakos, C ^b  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chaos; Galaxy formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036377332     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020147216999     Document Type: Article

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