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Cuspy triaxial potentials admit a large number of chaotic orbits, which moreover exhibit extreme stickiness that makes the process of chaotic mixing surprisingly inefficient. Environmental effects, modeled as noise and/or periodic driving, help accelerate phase space transport but probably not as much as in simpler potentials. This could mean that cuspy triaxial ellipticals cannot exist as time-independent systems.
This talk provides a progress report on an extended collaboration which has aimed to address two basic questions, namely: Should one expect to see cuspy, triaxial galaxies in nature? And can one construct realistic cuspy, triaxial equilibrium models
We used HST WFPC2 images to identify six early-type galaxies with surface- brightness profiles that decrease inward over a limited range of radii near their centers. The implied luminosity density profiles of these galaxies have local minima interior
A family of triaxial Stackel potential-density pairs is introduced. With the help of a Quadratic Programming method, a linear combination of potential-density pairs of this family which fits a given projected density distribution can be built. This d
We construct self-consistent dynamical models for disk galaxies with triaxial, cuspy halos. We begin with an equilibrium, axisymmetric, disk-bulge-halo system and apply an artificial acceleration to the halo particles. By design, this acceleration co
We investigate the origin of the evolution of the population-averaged central stellar mass density ($Sigma_1$) of quiescent galaxies (QGs) by probing the relation between stellar age and $Sigma_1$ at $zsim0$. We use the Zurich ENvironmental Study (ZE