Binney and Tremaine, 4.5.3, 4.6.4
Optional reading:
The following papers discuss the limitations of Jeans theorem:
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Binney,
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Kandrup,
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Schwarzschild, M. 1979, ApJ 232, 236 - the classic paper on constructing triaxial stellar systems
For a description of linear programming, see Numerical Recipes
For a description of Lucy's method for solving integral equations, see
Appendix C of Binney and Merrifield
A recent article on quadratic programming methods is here
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Richstone,
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applied to spherical models
The state of the art in using Schwarzschild's method to model observations is described in
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Gebhardt,
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van de Ven, G.,
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