SchwarMAX: a GPU-friendly Schwarzschild orbit-superposition modelling framework

arXiv:2607.00117 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-06-30 · Read on arXiv

HanYuan Zhang, David Chemaly, Eugene Vasiliev, Vasily Belokurov, N. Wyn Evans, Juntai Shen

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-06-30

Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures, 2 appendices. Submitted to MNRAS. Comments are welcome!

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

Aperture — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Consistency — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Self-consistency — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accuracy — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Objective Function — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Velocity Dispersion — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Bayesian Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers — 1× in this paper
Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo — 1× in this paper
Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Quadratic Programming (QP) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes