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STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES
Tim de Zeeuw
Sterewacht Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands
Marijn Franx 1
Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- EQUILIBRIUM MODELS
- Spherical and Axisymmetric Models
- Triaxial Models without Figure Rotation
- Separable Models
- Orbital Structure
- Self-Consistent Models
- Maximum Streaming Models
- Kinematics
- Scale-free Models
- Figure Rotation
- Stability
- Dissipationless Collapse
- Conclusions
- OBSERVATIONS
- Global Relations
- Rotation
- Detailed Kinematics
- Distinct Cores
- Velocity Fields
- Intrinsic Shapes
- Minor Axis Rotation
- Other Tests
- Cold Gas
- Mass-to-Light Ratios
- Central Black Holes
- Dark Matter
- FORMATION PROCESSES
- Which Processes Dominated at Galaxy Formation?
- Mergers?
- When did ellipticals form?
- Galaxy Formation at z = 0?
- FUTURE WORK
- Equilibrium Models
- Observations
- Formation Processes
- Evolution of Galaxies
- REFERENCES
1 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows.
