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Accurate numerical potential and field in razor-thin axisymmetric discs

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate the high accuracy of the density splitting method to compute the gravitational potential and field in the plane of razor-thin, axially symmetric discs, as preliminarily outlined in Pierens & Hure (2004). Because residual kernels in Poisson integrals are not C^infinity-class functions, we use a dynamical space mapping in order to increase the efficiency of advanced quadrature schemes. In terms of accuracy, results are better by orders of magnitude than for the classical FFT-methods.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0501185,
  title  = {Accurate numerical potential and field in razor-thin axisymmetric discs},
  author = {Jean-Marc Hure and Arnaud Pierens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0501185},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 5 color figures, 2 tables