Chaos in cuspy triaxial galaxies with a supermassive black hole: A simple toy model

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 61-81

  Kandrup, Henry E ^a   Sideris, Ioannis V ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies; Kinematics and dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036925402     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013859118402     Document Type: Article

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