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Should elliptical galaxies be idealised as collisionless equilibria?

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This review summarises several different lines of argument suggesting that one should not expect cuspy nonaxisymmetric galaxies to exist as robust, long-lived collisionless equilibria, i.e., that such objects should not be idealised as time-independent solutions to the collisionless Boltzmann equation.

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Kandrup, H.E. Should elliptical galaxies be idealised as collisionless equilibria?. Space Science Reviews 102, 101–114 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021312815868

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