Axisymmetric Three‐Integral Models for Galaxies
Axisymmetric Three‐Integral Models for Galaxies
We describe an improved, practical method for constructing galaxy models that match an arbitrary set of observational constraints, without prior assumptions about the phase-space distribution function (DF). Our method is an extension of Schwarzschild's orbit superposition technique. As in Schwarzschild's original implementation, we compute a representative library of orbits in …