Should elliptical galaxies be idealised as collisionless equilibria? |
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| Authors: | Henry E Kandrup |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Astronomy, Department of Physics, and Institute for Fundamental Theory, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida USA, 32611 |
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| Abstract: | This review summarises several different lines of argument suggesting that one should not expect cuspy nonaxisymmetric galaxies to exist as robust, long-lived collisionless equilibria, i.e., that such objects should not be idealised as time-independent solutions to the collisionless Boltzmann equation. |
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