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Halo Orbits in Cosmological Disk Galaxies: Tracers of Formation History

Authors: Monica Valluri, Victor P. Debattista, Gregory S. Stinson, Jeremy Bailin, Thomas R. Quinn, H. M. P. Couchman, and James Wadsley

Valluri et al. 2013 The Astrophysical Journal 767 93.

Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Similar to Figure 2: kernel density distribution of orbit types as a function of orbital elongation parameter χ _s. Values of χ _s > 0.1 denote orbits elongated along the major ( x) axis of the halo, while orbits with χ _s ~ 0 are axisymmetric or "round."

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