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Orbital structure of triaxial galaxies

Glenn van de Ven, Ellen Verolme, Michele Cappellari, Tim de Zeeuw

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0310488

Abstract

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.

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