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Dynamical Models of Elliptical Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

C. P. Wilson
C. P. Wilson*
Affiliation:
Hale Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., U.S.A.

Abstract

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Self-consistent dynamical models of elliptical galaxies have been constructed using a modification of the Prendergast-Tomer algorithm. They reproduce many of the observed properties of elliptical galaxies.

Type
Part II/Flattened Systems
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 69: Dynamics of Stellar Systems , 1975 , pp. 207 - 208
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1975 

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