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We show that the stellar surface-brightness profiles in disc galaxies---observed to be approximately exponential---can be explained if radial migration efficiently scrambles the individual stars' angular momenta while conserving the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-13 Jakob Herpich , Scott Tremaine , Hans-Walter Rix

It has been shown in previous work that DARKexp, which is a theoretically derived, maximum entropy, one shape parameter model for isotropic collisionless systems, provides very good fits to simulated and observed dark-matter halos.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-20 Liliya L. R. Williams , Jens Hjorth , Radoslaw Wojtak

Anisotropic spherically symmetric solutions within the framework of the Brans-Dicke theory are uncovered through a unique gravitational decoupling approach involving a minimal geometric transformation. This transformation effectively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Kazuharu Bamba , M. Z. Bhatti , Z. Yousaf , Z. Shoukat

Motivated by observational results, we use IllustrisTNG hydrodynamical numerical simulations to study the alignment of the central galaxies in groups with the surrounding structures. This approach allows us to analyse galaxy and group…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Facundo Rodriguez , Manuel Merchán , M. Celeste Artale , Moira Andrews

The angular power spectrum is a natural tool to analyse the observed galaxy number count fluctuations. In a standard analysis, the angular galaxy distribution is sliced into concentric redshift bins and all correlations of its harmonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Guglielmo Faggioli , Konstantinos Tanidis , Stefano Camera

We extend the T-matrix approach to light scattering by spherical particles to some simple cases in which the scatterers are optically anisotropic. Specifically we consider cases in which the spherical particles include radially and…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Kiselev , V. Yu Reshetnyak , T. J. Sluckin

In this paper we study a stellar dynamic model for the stars' rotational-dynamics, with a distribution of its own mass, rotating around its center with a higher density, like spiral galaxies happen, by means of a classical calculus of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 E. Lopez-Sandoval

Under nonuniform convection, the distribution of diffusive particles can exhibit dipole and quadrupole anisotropy induced by the fluid inertial and shear force, respectively. These convection-related anisotropies, unlike the Compton-Getting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu , Dejin Wu

We obtain an expression for the active gravitational mass of a collapsing fluid distribution, which brings out the role of density inhomogeneity and local anisotropy in the fate of spherical collapse.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Herrera , A. Di Prisco , J. L. Hernandez-Pastora , N. O. Santos

Weak gravitational lensing surveys have the potential to directly probe mass density fluctuation in the universe. Recent studies have shown that it is possible to model the statistics of the convergence field at small angular scales by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dipak Munshi , Bhuvnesh Jain

Evaluation of the angular distribution function of particles scattered in an amorphous medium is improved by deforming the integration path in the Fourier integral representation into the complex plane. That allows us to present the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 M. V. Bondarenco

We investigate the structure and radial oscillations of anisotropic compact stars composed of dark energy, using the vanishing complexity factor formalism within general relativity. This novel approach establishes a direct link between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-25 G. Panotopoulos , A. Rincon , I. Lopes

Under the separability assumption on the augmented density, a distribution function can be always constructed for a spherical population with the specified density and anisotropy profile. Then, a question arises, under what conditions the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-31 J. An

We present a spherically symmetric solution of the general relativistic field equations in isotropic coordinates for anisotropic neutral fluid, compatible with a super dense star modeling by considering a specific choice of anisotropy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-23 Neeraj Pant , Narendra Pradhan , Manuel Malaver

Galaxy models comprising several components (including dark matter) that are bound by the self-consistently generated gravitational field are readily constructed from distribution functions (DFs) that are analytic functions of the action…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-20 James Binney

We examine whether a cosmologically significant distribution of dark galaxy group or cluster-sized objects can have an optical depth for multiple imaging of distant background sources which is comparable to that from known galaxies while at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Yu-Chung N. Cheng , Lawrence M. Krauss

We investigate the angular and kinematic distributions of satellite galaxies around a large sample of bright isolated primaries in the spectroscopic and photometric catalogues of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We detect significant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-14 Marius Cautun , Wenting Wang , Carlos S. Frenk , Till Sawala

We present a new family of spherically symmetric models for the luminous components of elliptical and spiral galaxies and their dark matter haloes. Our starting point is a general expression for the logarithmic slope $\alpha(r) =…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. F. Cardone , E. Piedipalumbo , C. Tortora

Model of hard sphere system is important part of modern theories of liquids. Radial distribution function of hard sphere fluid represented in form of explicit analytical expression allows to obtain thermodynamic potentials in analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-11 Timur Aslyamov

A new method for analyzing point patterns produced by the evolution of gravitational clustering is presented. The method is taken from the study of molecular liquids, where it has been introduced for making a statistical description of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Valdarnini