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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 319, Issue 1, Pages 1-7Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03653.x
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galaxies : formation; galaxies : general; galaxies : kinematics and dynamics
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We suggest that polar rings and/or counter-rotating discs in flattened galaxies can be formed from stars captured at the Binney resonance, where the rate of precession of the angular momentum vector of a disc star equals the pattern speed of a triaxial halo. If the halo pattern speed is initially retrograde and slowly decays to zero, stars can be trapped as the Binney resonance sweeps past them, and levitated into polar orbits. If the halo pattern speed is initially retrograde and slowly changes to prograde, trapped stars can evolve from prograde to retrograde disc orbits.
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