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Building Galaxy Models with Schwarzschild Method and Spectral Dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Hongsheng Zhao
Hongsheng Zhao*
Affiliation:
Sterrewacht Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA, Leiden, The Netherlands, (hsz@strw.LeidenUniv.nl)

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Tremendous progress has been made recently in modelling the morphology and kinematics of centers of galaxies. Increasingly realistic models are built for central bar, bulge, nucleus and black hole of galaxies, including our own. The newly revived Schwarzschild method has played a central role in these theoretical modellings. Here I will highlight some recent work at Leiden on extending the Schwarzschild method in a few directions. After a brief discussion of (i) an analytical approach to include stochastic orbits (Zhao 1996), and (ii) the “pendulum effect” of loop and boxlet orbits (Zhao, Carollo, de Zeeuw 1999), I will concentrate on the very promising (iii) spectral dynamics method, with which not only can one obtain semi-analytically the actions of individual orbits as previously known, but also many other physical quantities, such as the density in configuration space and the line-of-sight velocity distribution of a superposition of orbits (Copin, Zhao & de Zeeuw 1999). The latter method also represents a drastic reduction of storage space for the orbit library and an increase in accuracy over the grid-based Schwarzschild method.

Type
Stellar Systems
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 172: Impact of Modern Dynamics in Astronomy , 1999 , pp. 187 - 194
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1999

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