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Domains of interest in astrophysics:

  • Galactic dynamics,
  • Gravitational dynamics,
  • Hamiltonian dynamics,
  • N-body simulations,
  • Baryonic dark matter,
  • Neutrinos and cosmology,
  • Computer graphics,
  • Parallel computing,

Peanut shaped bar-bulge obtained in N-body simulations


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Face-on and edge-on appearance (in false colors) of peanut-shaped N-body bars.   Such structures appear spontaneously in simulations of stellar disks of galaxies, and are fairly robust.   Depending on the viewing angle such bars can be mistaken as round or boxy bulge.  



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University of Geneva
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Email: daniel.pfenniger(6)unige.ch