Spatial structure of regular and chaotic orbits in self-consistent models of galactic satellites (Q1766788)

In several previous papers by the authors it was shown that chaotic orbits play an important role in internal dynamics of some galactic satellites. But it is still not clear how the chaotic orbits influence the distribution of the stars inside the satellite and, thus, how they contribute to its spatial structure. Later \textit{N. Voglis} et al. [Mass components in ordered and chaotic motion in galactic \(N\)-body models, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 337, No. 2, 619--630 (2002)] suggested a new approach to investigate the inner motions in self-consistent models of galactic satellites. They created self-consistent galaxies through dissipationless collapses of large \(N\)-body system and, subsequently, freezed the potentials of the resulting systems; orbits and Lyapunov exponents could then be computed in those smooth and stationary potentials and the spatial distributions of the ordered and chaotic components could be separately established. Here, it is an attempt to apply the same technique to build self-consistent models of galactic satellites, to classify the orbits of the bodies that make them up and to investigate separately the distributions of those on regular and chaotic orbits to ascertain whether there are any significant differences between them. The results of the numerical investigations are presented in numerous diagrams and are discussed.