Phase-space mixing and the merging of cusps

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 360, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 892-900

  Dehnen, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: haloes galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: structure; Methods: analytical; Methods: statistical; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; MERGING; PHASE SPACE METHODS; STARS;

DISTRIBUTION-FUNCTIONS; GALAXIES: INTERACTIONS; GALAXIES:STRUCTURE; GALAXY: HALO GALAXY: INTERACTION; GALAXY:HALO; HALO-GALAXIES; METHODS:ANALYTICAL; METHODS:STATISTICAL; PHASE SPACES; STELLAR DYNAMICS;

MIXING;

EID: 22144451480     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09099.x     Document Type: Article

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