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Three dimensional, axisymmetric cusps without chaos

Astrophysics 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

We construct three dimensional axisymmetric, cuspy density distributions, whose potentials are of St\"ackel form in parabolic coordinates. As in Sridhar and Touma (1997), a black hole of arbitrary mass may be added at the centre, without destroying the St\"ackel form of the potentials. The construction uses a classic method, originally due to Kuzmin (1956), which is here extended to parabolic coordinates. The models are highly oblate, and the cusps are "weak", with the density, ρ1/rk\rho \propto 1/r^k, where 0<k<10<k<1.

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9704015,
  title  = {Three dimensional, axisymmetric cusps without chaos},
  author = {S. Sridhar and J. Touma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9704015},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS