Invariant distributions and collisionless equilibria

Details Invariant distributions and collisionless equilibria Invariant distributions and collisionless equilibria

1997-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9709125v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, LaTeX, no macros

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01865.x

This paper discusses the possibility of constructing time-independent solutions to the collisionless Boltzmann equation which depend on quantities other than global isolating integrals such as energy and angular momentum. The key point is that, at least in principle, a self-consistent equilibrium can be constructed from any set of time-independent phase space building blocks which, when combined, generate the mass distribution associated with an assumed time-independent potential. This approach provides a way to justify Schwarzschild's (1979) method for the numerical construction of self-consistent equilibria with arbitrary time-independent potentials, generalising thereby an approach developed by Vandervoort (1984) for integrable potentials. As a simple illustration, Schwarzschild's method is reformulated to allow for a straightforward computation of equilibria which depend only on one or two global integrals and no other quantities, as is reasonable, e.g., for modeling axisymmetric configurations characterised by a nonintegrable potential.

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