Chaos and secular evolution of triaxial N-body galactic models due to an imposed central mass

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 428, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 905-923

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

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chaos; Galaxies: evolution galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: formation; Methods: N body simulations; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; KINEMATICS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CHAOS-STELLAR DYNAMICS-METHODS; EVOLUTION-GALAXIES; FORMATION-GALAXIES; KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; N-BODY SIMULATIONS-GALAXIES;

GALAXIES;

EID: 10944239552     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20041492     Document Type: Article

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