An empirical formula for the distribution function of a thin exponential disc

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 773, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Sharma, Sanjib ^a   Bland Hawthorn, Joss ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: disk; Galaxy: structure; methods: analytical; methods: numerical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881396669     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/773/2/183     Document Type: Article

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