Schwarzschild's method

English Alternative forms en Schwarzschild method Etymology en Martin Schwarzschild = German-American astrophysicist 1912 1997. Noun - en astrophysics galaxy 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. en Topics in Gravitational Dynamics Daniel Benest 2008 This is because in Schwarzschild's method we seek to match the distribution of matter only in configuration space but we ignore the velocity distribution which is an outcome of the method for any particular solution . Derived terms en Schwarzschild model a model built by using the Schwarzschild's method