Milking the spherical cow - on aspherical dynamics in spherical coordinates
(2015)
Journal Article
Pontzen, A., Read, J. I., Teyssier, R., Governato, F., Gualandris, A., Roth, N., & Devriendt, J. (2015). Milking the spherical cow - on aspherical dynamics in spherical coordinates. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451(2), 1366–1379. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1032
Galaxies and the dark matter haloes that host them are not spherically symmetric, yet spherical symmetry is a helpful simplifying approximation for idealized calculations and analysis of observational data. The assumption leads to an exact conservati... Read More about Milking the spherical cow - on aspherical dynamics in spherical coordinates.