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We use both N-body simulations and integration in fixed potentials to explore the stability and the long-term secular evolution of self-consistent, equilibrium, non-rotating, triaxial spheroidal galactic models. More specifically, we…

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We construct a large set of dynamical models of the galactic bulge, bar and inner disk using the Made-to-Measure method. Our models are constrained to match the red clump giant density from a combination of the VVV, UKIDSS and 2MASS…

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Luminous galaxies and their dark halos are likely to have triaxial shapes. The construction of distribution functions for triaxial systems is a hard problem, due to the existence of only one exact integral of motion, the energy $E$. Even…

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Gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics are two independent methods, based solely on gravity, to study the mass distributions of galaxies. Both methods suffer from degeneracies, however, that are difficult to break. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-05 Matteo Barnabe' , Leon V. E. Koopmans

We present results of a new feedback scheme implemented in the Munich galaxy formation model. The new scheme includes a dynamical treatment of galactic winds powered by supernovae explosions and stellar winds in a cosmological context. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Serena Bertone , Gabriella De Lucia , Peter A. Thomas

A semi-analytic model is proposed that couples the Press-Schechter formalism for the number of galaxies with a prescription for galaxy-galaxy interactions that enables to follow the evolution of galaxy morphologies along the Hubble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christophe Balland , Julien E. G. Devriendt , Joe Silk

This is the first of a series of papers dedicated to unveil the mass composition and dynamical structure of a sample of flattened early type galaxies in the Coma cluster. We describe our modifications to the Schwarzschild code of Richstone…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Thomas , R. P. Saglia , R. Bender , D. Thomas , K. Gebhardt , J. Magorrian , D. Richstone

Much of the inner Milky Way's (MW) global rotation and velocity dispersion patterns can be reproduced by models of secularly-evolved, bar-dominated bulges. More sophisticated constraints, including the higher moments of the line-of-sight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 G. Zasowski , M. K. Ness , A. E. García Pérez , I. Martinez-Valpuesta , J. A. Johnson , S. R. Majewski

We probe the feasibility of describing the structure of a multi-component axisymmetric galaxy with a dynamical model based on the Jeans equations while taking into account a third integral of motion. We demonstrate that using the third…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Rain Kipper , Peeter Tenjes , Olga Tihhonova , Antti Tamm , Elmo Tempel

We perform a thorough analysis into a Schwarzschild black hole embedded in a Dehnen-type dark matter halo with a quintessential field. We develop the composite spacetime metric and examine its geometric properties, including horizon…

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Combining galaxy clustering information from regions of different environmental densities can help break cosmological parameter degeneracies and access non-Gaussian information from the density field that is not readily captured by the…

A new potential is presented for spherical galaxies. The technique of the construction of our model is similar to that given by An and Evans. In a special case, its mass density becomes a special one of the Hernquist model. Another special…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-11 Zhenglu Jiang , Zanchen Zhuo

The statistical properties of the ellipticities of galaxy images depend on how galaxies form and evolve, and therefore constrain models of galaxy morphology, which are key to the removal of the intrinsic alignment contamination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-28 B. Joachimi , E. Semboloni , P. E. Bett , J. Hartlap , S. Hilbert , H. Hoekstra , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback

We combine a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation with simple analytic recipes describing the absorption and re-emission of starlight by dust in the interstellar medium of galaxies. We use the resulting models to predict galaxy counts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. S. Somerville , R. C. Gilmore , J. R. Primack , A. Dominguez

We investigate analytically a large-scale coherence in the orientation of galaxies embedded in two-dimensional sheet-like structures in the frame of the tidal torque theory. Assuming that the galaxy spin and the surrounding matter fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jounghun Lee

Integral field spectroscopy of high-redshift galaxies has become a powerful tool for understanding their dynamics and evolutionary states. However, in the case of gravitationally lensed systems, it has proved difficult to model both lensing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 Anthony J. Young , Charles R. Keeton , Andrew J. Baker

Dynamical modelling of Integral-Field-Unit (IFU) stellar kinematics is a powerful tool to unveil the dynamical structure and mass build-up of galaxies in the local Universe, while gravitational lensing is nature's cosmic telescope to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-18 G. Chirivì , A. Yıldırım , S. H. Suyu , A. Halkola

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful tool to provide constraints on galaxy mass distributions and cosmological parameters, such as the Hubble constant, $H_0$. Nevertheless, inference of such parameters from images of lensing systems…

Forthcoming cosmological imaging surveys, such as the Rubin Observatory LSST, require large-scale simulations encompassing realistic galaxy populations for a variety of scientific applications. Of particular concern is the phenomenon of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-30 Yesukhei Jagvaral , Francois Lanusse , Rachel Mandelbaum

We present a new discrete chemo-dynamical axisymmetric modeling technique, which we apply to the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Sculptor. The major improvement over previous Jeans models is that realistic chemical distributions are included…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Ling Zhu , Glenn van de Ven , Laura L. Watkins , Lorenzo Posti