Gravitational Field Inside and Near a Caustic Ring
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2012-05-08 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We present an analytic calculation of the gravitational field inside and near a caustic ring of dark matter. The calculation may facilitate N-body simulation studies on the effects that dark matter caustics have on galaxy formation.
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@article{arxiv.1205.1260,
title = {Gravitational Field Inside and Near a Caustic Ring},
author = {Heywood Tam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.1260},
year = {2012}
}
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11 pages