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On an empirical method to build near-equilibrium axisymmetric and triaxial galaxy models

2026/07/31 by Pierfrancesco Di Cintio, Alessandro Alberto Trani, Valentina Cesare
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.GA

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16 pages, 7 figures, submitted. Comments welcome

arxiv created 2026/07/31 · arxiv updated 2026/08/04

Abstract

We introduce a numerical technique to implement N-body realizations of axisymmetric and triaxial self-gravitating system starting from a spherical self-consistent models for which a phase-space distribution is known. The method is an improvement of the so-called adiabatic squeezing technique and allows one to have a better control of the effective ellipticities of the particle distribution and produces virialized systems that can be used as non-spherical initial conditions for N-body simulations. Some numerical stability tests are presented and discussed.

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