Stochasticity in N-body simulations of disc galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 398, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1279-1297

  Sellwood, J A ^a   Debattista, Victor P ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: haloes; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: spiral

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CHAOTIC NATURE; DISK GALAXIES; DIVERGENT BEHAVIORS; GALAXIES: KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; GALAXIES: SPIRALS; GALAXY EVOLUTION; GALAXY:HALO; N-BODY SIMULATION; N-BODY SYSTEM; STOCHASTICITY;

GALAXIES;

EID: 70249115578     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15219.x     Document Type: Article

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