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Named after German-American astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild (1912–1997).
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Schwarzschild's method
Today it means: A method to develop triaxial equilibrium kinematic models of actual galaxies (without knowledge of the motions of the component elements of the actual galaxies) using a grid and assigning masses and orbits, simulating gravitational evolution with the resulting estimated distributions, to compare with the actual galaxy, until a model results in similarity with the actual galaxy. Full definition →