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Schwarzschild's method

Schwarzschild's method noun: a method to develop triaxial equilibrium kinematic models of actual galaxies (without knowledge of the motions of the component elements of the actual galaxies) using a grid and assigning masses and orbits, simulating gravitational evolution with the resulting estimated distributions, to compare with the actual galaxy, until a model results in similarity with the actual galaxy.

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Schwarzschild's method (uncountable)

  1. A method to develop triaxial equilibrium kinematic models of actual galaxies (without knowledge of the motions of the component elements of the actual galaxies) using a grid and assigning masses and orbits, simulating gravitational evolution with the resulting estimated distributions, to compare with the actual galaxy, until a model results in similarity with the actual galaxy.
    • This is because in Schwarzschild's method we seek to match the distribution of matter only in configuration space but we ignore the velocity distribution which is an outcome of the method for any particular solution w#95;o.2008, Daniel Benest, Topics in Gravitational Dynamics

Forms of Schwarzschild's method

alternative formSchwarzschild method

Origin of Schwarzschild's method

Named after German-American astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild (1912–1997).

Words formed from Schwarzschild's method

Questions about Schwarzschild's method

What does Schwarzschild's method mean?
Schwarzschild's method means a method to develop triaxial equilibrium kinematic models of actual galaxies (without knowledge of the motions of the component elements of the actual galaxies) using a grid and assigning masses and orbits, simulating gravitational evolution with the resulting estimated distributions, to compare with the actual galaxy, until a model results in similarity with the actual galaxy.
What part of speech is Schwarzschild's method?
Schwarzschild's method is a noun.

Words near Schwarzschild's method in the dictionary

  1. Schwarzschild method
  2. Schwarzschild model
  3. Schwarzschild models
  4. Schwarzschild radii
  5. Schwarzschild radius
  6. Schwarzschild's method
  7. Schwarzwald
  8. schwas
  9. schwebeablaut
  10. schwebeablauted
  11. schwebeablauting

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