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Tailoring triaxial N-body models via a novel made-to-measure method

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 395, Issue 2, Pages 1079-1086

Publisher

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14603.x

Keywords

stellar dynamics; methods: N-body simulations; galaxies: haloes; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: structure

Funding

  1. STFC
  2. STFC [PP/E00119X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  3. Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/E00119X/1] Funding Source: researchfish

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The made-to-measure N-body method slowly adapts the particle weights of an N-body model, whilst integrating the trajectories in an assumed static potential, until some constraints are satisfied, such as optimal fits to observational data. I propose a novel technique for this adaption procedure, which overcomes several limitations and shortcomings of the original method. The capability of the new technique is demonstrated by generating realistic N-body equilibrium models for dark matter haloes with prescribed density profile, triaxial shape and slowly outwardly growing radial velocity anisotropy.

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