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Kinematic signatures of triaxial stellar systems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2017
Abstract
Analytic dynamic models of triaxial stellar systems, such as elliptical galaxies and galactic bulges, can be used to calculate the velocity fields of systems in a wide range of potentials without the need for orbit integrations. We present results from a first application of these models, in the form of velocity fields projected onto the sky. The appearance of the velocity field depends strongly on the viewing angle. Thin orbit models provide a theoretical upper limit to streaming in all possible kinematic models in a given potential.
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