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We present SMART, a new 3D implementation of the Schwarzschild Method and its application to a triaxial N-body merger simulation. SMART fits full line-of-sight velocity distributions (LOSVDs) to determine the viewing angles, black hole,…

As a demonstration of the capabilities of the new Oxford SWIFT integral field spectrograph, we present first observations for a set of 14 early-type galaxies in the core of the Coma cluster. Our data consist of I- and z-band spatially…

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We present the derivation of distribution functions for the first four members of a family of disks, previously obtained in (MNRAS, 371, 1873, 2006), which represent a family of axially symmetric galaxy models with finite radius and well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-07 Guillermo A. González , Juan F. Pedraza , Javier Ramos-Caro

We present Forstand, a new code for constructing dynamical models of galaxies with the Schwarzschild orbit-superposition method. These models are constrained by line-of-sight kinematic observations and applicable to galaxies of all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Eugene Vasiliev , Monica Valluri

Population and distribution of defects is one of the primary parameters controlling materials functionality, are often non-ergodic and strongly dependent on synthesis history, and are rarely amenable to direct theoretical prediction. Here,…

This paper presents two families of phase-space distribution functions (DFs) that generate scale-free spheroidal mass densities in scale-free spherical potentials. The `case I' DFs are anisotropic generalizations of the flattened f(E,L_z)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jos H. J. de Bruijne , Roeland P. van der Marel , P. Tim de Zeeuw

Weak lensing provides a direct way of mapping the density distribution in the universe. To reconstruct the density field from the shear catalog, an important step is to build the shear field from the shear catalog, which can be quite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Haoran Wang , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Cong Liu

We propose an association between the phase-space mixing level of a self-gravitating system and the indistinguishability of its constituents (stars or dark matter particles). This represents a refinement in the study of systems exhibiting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-05 Leandro Beraldo e Silva , Marcos Lima , Laerte Sodré , Jérôme Perez

Starting from an axisymmetric equilibrium distribution function (DF) in action space, representing a Milky Way thin disc stellar population, we use the linearized Boltzmann equation to explicitly compute the response to a three-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-23 Giacomo Monari , Benoit Famaey , Arnaud Siebert

In our previous work we confirmed the reliability of the spherically symmetric Schwarzschild orbit-superposition method to recover the mass and velocity anisotropy profiles of spherical dwarf galaxies. Here we investigate the effect of its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Klaudia Kowalczyk , Ewa L. Lokas , Monica Valluri

We study the distribution function (DF) of dark matter particles in haloes of mass range 10^{14}--10^{15}\Msun. In the numerical part of this work we measure the DF for a sample of relaxed haloes formed in the simulation of a standard…

We study systematically stationary solutions to the coupled Vlasov and Poisson equations which have `self-similar' or scaling symmetry in phase space. In particular, we find analytically {\it all} spherically symmetric distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. N. Henriksen , Lawrence M. Widrow

A real-space formalism for density-functional perturbation theory (DFPT) is derived and applied for the computation of harmonic vibrational properties in molecules and solids. The practical implementation using numeric atom-centered…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 Honghui Shang , Christian Carbogno , Patrick Rinke , Matthias Scheffler

The probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density is an essential characteristic of the structure of molecular clouds or the interstellar medium in general. Observations of the PDF of molecular clouds indicate a…

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We present an implementation of the Schwarzschild orbit superposition method which can be used for constructing self-consistent equilibrium models of barred or non-barred disc galaxies, or of elliptical galaxies with figure rotation. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Eugene Vasiliev , E. Athanassoula

We show different expressions of distribution functions (DFs) which depend only on the two classical integrals of the energy and the magnitude of the angular momentum with respect to the axis of symmetry for stellar systems with known…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Zhenglu Jiang , Leonid Ossipkov

Purpose: Previously-developed Voxel Spread Function (VSF) method (Yablonskiy, et al, MRM, 2013;70:1283) provides means to correct artifacts induced by macroscopic magnetic field inhomogeneities in the images obtained by…

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The redshift distribution of galactic-scale lensing systems provides a laboratory to probe the velocity dispersion function (VDF) of early-type galaxies (ETGs) and measure the evolution of early-type galaxies at redshift z ~ 1. Through the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-09 Shuaibo Geng , Shuo Cao , Yuting Liu , Tonghua Liu , Marek Biesiada , Yujie Lian

The accuracy of time-domain solutions of the inhomogeneous Teukolsky equation is improved significantly. Comparing energy fluxes in gravitational waves with highly accurate frequency-domain results for circular equatorial orbits in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lior M. Burko , Gaurav Khanna