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A new 3D potential-density basis set

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2007

Alireza Rahmati
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran email: [email protected]
Mir Abbas Jalali
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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A set of bi-orthogonal potential-density basis functions is introduced to model the density and its associated gravitational field of three dimensional stellar systems. Radial components of our basis functions are weighted integral forms of spherical Bessel functions. We discuss on the properties of our basis functions and demonstrate their shapes for the latitudinal Fourier number l = 2.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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