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Supercomputer Simulations of Disk Galaxies

Evgeny Griv, Michael Gedalin, Edward Liverts, David Eichler, Yehoshua Kimhi

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0012177

Abstract

The time evolution of models for an isolated disk of highly flattened galaxies of stars is investigated by direct integration of the Newtonian equations of motion of N=30,000 identical stars over a time span of many galactic rotations. Certain astronomical implications of the simulations to actual disk-shaped (i.e. rapidly rotating) galaxies are explored as well.

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