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When speaking about astrophysical applications of the investigations of stationary states and stability of collisionless ellipsoids, we have borne in mind the different galactic systems. A roughly ellipsoidal shape is possessed, for example, by elliptical galaxies and the bars of the SB-galaxies. Elliptical galaxies obviously possess an axial symmetry while the bars of the SB- galaxies are, explicitly, not axially-symmetrical with respect to the axis of rotation.
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Fridman, A.M., Polyachenko, V.L. (1984). Ellipsoidal Systems. In: Physics of Gravitating Systems II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87833-6_5
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