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Approximate dynamics of dark matter ellipsoids

G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan, O. Yu. Tsupko

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0512309

Abstract

The collapse of non-collisional dark matter and the formation of pancake structures in the Universe are investigated approximately. Collapse is described by a system of ordinary differential equations, in the model of a uniformly rotating, three-axis, uniform density ellipsoid. Violent relaxation, mass and angular momentum losses are taken into account phenomenologically. The formation of the equilibrium configuration, secular instability and the transition from a spheroid to a three-axis ellipsoid are investigated numerically and analytically in this dynamical model.

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