NMAGic: A fast parallel implementation of a χ2-made-to- measure algorithm for modelling observational data

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 376, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-88

  De Lorenzi, Flavio ^a,b   Debattista, Victor P ^c   Gerhard, Ortwin ^a   Sambhus, Niranjan ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Methods: N body simulations; Methods: numerical

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROTATING MACHINERY; STARS;

GALAXIES: KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; MADE-TO-MEASURE; METHOD: NUMERICAL; METHODS:N-BODY SIMULATIONS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; PARALLEL CODE; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PARTICLE MODELING; STELLAR SYSTEM;

KINEMATICS;

EID: 33947196377     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11434.x     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Amdahl G. M., 1967, AFIPS Conf. Proc. Vol. 30. AFIPS Press, Reston, Va., p. 483
2. Binney J., Tremaine S., 1987, Galactic Dynamics. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ
3. Bishop J.L., 1987, ApJ, 322, 618
4. Bissantz N., Debattista V. P., Gerhard O., 2004, ApJ, 601, L155
5. Cappellari M., Verolme E. K., van derMarel R. P., Kleijn G. A. V., Illingworth G. D., Franx M., Carollo C. M., de Zeeuw P. T., 2002, ApJ, 578, 787
6. Carollo C. M., de Zeeuw P. T., van der Marel R. P., 1995, MNRAS, 276, 1131
7. Copin Y., Cretton N., Emsellem E., 2004, A&A, 415, 889s
8. Cretton N., de Zeeuw P.T., van der Marel R.P., Rix H.-W., 1999, ApJS, 124, 383
9. Debattista V. P., Sellwood J. A., 2000, ApJ, 543, 704
10. Dehnen W., Gerhard O. E., 1993, MNRAS, 261, 311
11. Dehnen W., Gerhard O. E., 1994, MNRAS, 268, 1019
12. Dejonghe H., 1984. A&A, 133, 225
13. Dejonghe H., 1986, Phys. Rep., 133, 217
14. Dejonghe H., de Zeeuw T., 1988, ApJ, 333, 90
15. Franx M., Illingworth G., de Zeeuw T., 1991, ApJ, 383, 112
16. Gebhardt K. et al., 2003, ApJ, 583, 92
17. Gerhard O. E., 1991, MNRAS, 250, 812
18. Gerhard O. E., 1993, MNRAS, 265, 213
19. Hernquist L., 1990, ApJ, 356, 359
20. Hunter C., de Zeeuw P. T., 1992, ApJ, 389, 79
21. Hunter C., Qian E., 1993, MNRAS, 262, 401
22. Kronawitter A., Saglia R. P., Gerhard O., Bender R., 2000, A&AS, 144, 53
23. Kuijken K., 1995, ApJ, 446, 194
24. Lucy L.B., 1974, AJ, 79, 745
25. Lynden-Bell D., 1960, MNRAS, 120, 204
26. Magorrian J., 1995, MNRAS, 277, 1185
27. Matthias M., Gerhard O., 1999, MNRAS, 310, 879
28. Merritt D., 1996, AJ, 112, 1085
29. Ollongren A., 1962, Bull. Astron. Inst. Netherlands, 16, 241
30. Press W. H., Teukolsky S. A., Vetterling W. T., Flannery B. P., 1992, Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN. The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd edn. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge
31. Qian E. E., de Zeeuw P. T., van der Marel R. P., Hunter C., 1995, MNRAS, 274, 602
32. Rix H.-W., de Zeeuw P. T., Cretton N., van der Marel R. P., Carollo C. M., 1997, ApJ, 488, 702
33. Romanowsky A. J., Kochanek C. S., 2001, ApJ, 553, 722
34. Saaf A. F., 1968, ApJ, 154, 483
35. Schwarzschild M., 1979, ApJ, 232, 236
36. Sellwood J. A., 2003, ApJ, 587, 638
37. Syer D., Tremaine S., 1996, MNRAS, 282, 223 (ST96)
38. Thomas J., Saglia R. P., Bender R., Thomas D., Gebhardt K., Magoman J., Corsini E. M., Wegner G., 2005, MNRAS, 360, 1355
39. Valluri M., Merritt D., Emsellem E., 2004, ApJ, 602, 66
40. van de Ven G., Hunter C., Verolme E. K., de Zeeuw P. T., 2003, MNRAS, 342, 1056
41. van der Marel R. P., Franx M., 1993, ApJ, 407, 525
42. Verolme E. K. et al., 2002, MNRAS, 335, 517