Relaxation of a collisionless system and the transition to a new equilibrium velocity distribution

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 595, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 43-58

  Merrall, Thomas E C ^a   Henriksen, Richard N ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: halos; Methods: numerical; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141707770     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377249     Document Type: Article

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