Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002cemda..83..191c&link_type=abstract
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, v. 83, Issue 1, p. 191-204 (2002).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Galaxy Formation, Chaos
Scientific paper
We construct and compare two different self-consistent N-body equilibrium configurations of galactic models. The two systems have their origin in cosmological initial conditions selected so that the radial orbit instability appears in one model and gives an E5 type elliptical galaxy, but not in the other that gives an E1 type. We examine their phase spaces using uniformly distributed orbits of test particles in the resulting potential and compare with the distribution of the orbits of the real particles in the two systems. The main types of orbits in both cases are box, tube and chaotic orbits. One main conclusion is that the orbits of the test particles in the 3-dimensional potential are foliated in a way quite close to the foliation of invariant tori in a 2-dimensional potential. The real particles describe orbits having similar foliation. However, their distribution is far from being uniform. The difference between the two models of equilibrium is realized mainly by different balances of the populations of real particles in box and tube orbits.
Contopoulos George
Kalapotharakos Constantinos
Voglis Nikos
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