2003/10/17 by Glenn van de Ven, E. K. Verolme, Ellen Verolme +7
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Numerical methods for differential equations #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0310488
2 pages (1 figure), to appear in the proceedings of the IAU Symposium 220 "Dark matter in galaxies", eds. S. Ryder, D.J. Pisano, M. Walker and K. Freeman
arxiv created 2003/10/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We have developed a method to construct realistic triaxial dynamical models for elliptical galaxies, allowing us to derive best-fitting parameters, such as the mass-to-light ratio and the black hole mass, and to study the orbital structure. We use triaxial theoretical Abel models to investigate the robustness of the method.