On the deprojection of triaxial galaxies with Stäckel potentials

Details On the deprojection of triaxial galaxies with Stäckel potentials On the deprojection of triaxial galaxies with Stäckel potentials

1996-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9603065v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, to appear in A&A, postscript file with figures available at ftp://naos.rug.ac.be/pub/deprojection.ps.Z

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A family of triaxial St\"ackel potential-density pairs is introduced. With the help of a Quadratic Programming method, a linear combination of potential-density pairs of this family which fits a given projected density distribution can be built. This deprojection strategy can be used to model the potentials of triaxial elliptical galaxies with or without dark halos. Besides, we show that the expressions for the St\"ackel triaxial density and potential are considerably simplified when expressed in terms of divided differences, which are convenient numerically. We present an example of triaxial deprojection for the galaxy NGC~5128 whose photometry follows the de Vaucouleurs law.

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