Simulations of Spheroidal Systems with Substructure: Trees in Fields
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We present a hybrid technique of N-body simulation to deal with collisionless stellar systems having an inhomogeneous global structure. We combine a treecode and a self-consistent field code such that each of the codes model a different component of the system being investigated. The treecode is suited to treatment of dynamically cold or clumpy systems which may undergo significant evolution within a dynamically hot system. The hot system is appropriately evolved by the self-consistent field code. This combined code is particularly suited to a number of problems in galactic dynamics. Applications of the code to these problems are briefly discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9702077,
title = {Simulations of Spheroidal Systems with Substructure: Trees in Fields},
author = {S. Vine and S. Sigurdsson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9702077},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, LaTeX, 13 figures, submitted to MNRAS