The made-to-measure N-body method slowly adapts the particle weights of an N-body model, whilst integrating the trajectories in an assumed static potential, until some constraints are satisfied, such as optimal fits to observational data. I propose a novel technique for this adaption procedure, which overcomes several limitations and shortcomings of the original method. The capability of the new technique is demonstrated by generating realistic N-body equilibrium models for dark matter haloes with prescribed density profile, triaxial shape and slowly outwardly growing radial velocity anisotropy.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009, 395 (2), pp. 1079-1086