Sabine Thater
Testing the robustness of DYNAMITE triaxial Schwarzschild modelling: The effects of correcting the orbit mirroring
Thater, Sabine; Jethwa, Prashin; Tahmasebzadeh, Behzad; Zhu, Ling; den Brok, Mark; Santucci, Giulia; Ding, Yuchen; Poci, Adriano; Lilley, Edward; Tim de Zeeuw, P.; Zocchi, Alice; Maindl, Thomas I.; Rigamonti, Fabio; Yang, Meng; Fahrion, Katja; van de Ven, Glenn
Authors
Prashin Jethwa
Behzad Tahmasebzadeh
Ling Zhu
Mark den Brok
Giulia Santucci
Yuchen Ding
Adriano Poci adriano.poci@durham.ac.uk
Academic Visitor
Edward Lilley
P. Tim de Zeeuw
Alice Zocchi
Thomas I. Maindl
Fabio Rigamonti
Meng Yang
Katja Fahrion
Glenn van de Ven
Abstract
In the past 15 yr, the triaxial Schwarzschild orbit-superposition code developed by van den Bosch and van de Ven in Leiden has been widely applied to study the dynamics of galaxies. Recently, a bug was reported in the orbit calculation of this code, specifically in the mirroring procedure that is used to speed up the computation. We have fixed the incorrect mirroring in the DYNAMITE code, which is the publicly-released successor of the Leiden triaxial Schwarzschild code. In this study, we provide a thorough quantification of how this bug has affected the results of dynamical analyses performed with this code. We compare results obtained with the original and corrected versions of DYNAMITE, and discuss the differences in the phase-space distribution of a single orbit and in the global stellar orbit distribution, in the mass estimate of the central black hole in the highly triaxial galaxy PGC 46832, and in the measurement of intrinsic shape and enclosed mass for more than 50 galaxies. Focusing on the typical scientific applications of the Schwarzschild method, in all our tests we find that differences are negligible with respect to the statistical and systematic uncertainties. We conclude that previous results with the Leiden triaxial Schwarzschild code are not significantly affected by the incorrect mirroring.
Citation
Thater, S., Jethwa, P., Tahmasebzadeh, B., Zhu, L., den Brok, M., Santucci, G., Ding, Y., Poci, A., Lilley, E., Tim de Zeeuw, P., Zocchi, A., Maindl, T. I., Rigamonti, F., Yang, M., Fahrion, K., & van de Ven, G. (2022). Testing the robustness of DYNAMITE triaxial Schwarzschild modelling: The effects of correcting the orbit mirroring. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 667, Article A51. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243926
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 8, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 3, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2022 |
Deposit Date | Mar 6, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 6, 2023 |
Journal | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
Print ISSN | 0004-6361 |
Electronic ISSN | 1432-0746 |
Publisher | EDP Sciences |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 667 |
Article Number | A51 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243926 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1179188 |
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