Published in PASP, Vol. 111, p. 129, 1999.
astro-ph/9810371
ELLIPTICAL GALAXY DYNAMICS
David Merritt
Department of
Physics and Astronomy,
Rutgers University
Serin Physics Laboratories, Piscataway, NJ 08855
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- TORUS CONSTRUCTION
- Iterative Approaches
- Perturbative Methods
- Nonperturbative Methods
- Trajectory-Following Approaches
- MODELLING AXISYMMETRIC GALAXIES
- Two-Integral Models
- Models Based on Special Potentials
- General Axisymmetric Models
- The Axisymmetric Inverse Problem
- TRIAXIALITY
- The Structure of Phase Space
- Periodic Orbits
- Nonrotating Potentials
- Rotating Models
- Stochasticity
- Origin
- Transition to Global Stochasticity
- Self-Consistent Models
- COLLISIONLESS RELAXATION
- Jeans's Theorem
- Approach to a Steady State
- Ergodicity and Mixing
- Mixing in Fixed Potentials
- Mixing in Time-Dependent Potentials
- Entropy
- Mixing-Induced Evolution
- COLLECTIVE INSTABILITIES
- Hénon's instability
- The radial-orbit instability
- Bending instabilities
- Instabilities in radially-cold models
- The "tumbling bar instability"
- Instabilities of triaxial models
- REFERENCEs
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