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In What Detail Can We Represent the Milky Way in a Conventional N-Body Model?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Victor P. Debattista
Victor P. Debattista*
Affiliation:
Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, UK email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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After a brief review of past N-body models of the Milky Way, I consider some of the difficulties that are inherent in the N-body approach to modelling any disk galaxy.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Highlights H15: Highlights of Astronomy , November 2009 , pp. 196 - 197
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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