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Ring galaxies are amazing objects exemplified by the famous case of the Hoag's Object. Here the mass of the central galaxy may be comparable to the mass of the ring, making it a difficult case to model mechanically. In a previous paper, it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-08 Elena Yu. Bannikova

The particle dynamics of the recently observed ring around dwarf planet Haumea is numerically investigated. The point mass gravitational force, a second degree and order gravity field, and the solar radiation pressure as the main…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Tamás Kovács , Zsolt Regály

It is often stated in the physics literature that maximally-spinning Kerr black-hole spacetimes are characterized by near-horizon co-rotating circular geodesics of radius $r_{\text{circular}}$ with the property $r_{\text{circular}}\to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-19 Shahar Hod

The hypothesis of an additional planet in the outer Solar System has gained new support as a result of the confinement noted in the angular orbital elements of distant trans-Neptunian objects. Orbital parameters proposed for the external…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Jessica Cáceres , Rodney Gomes

Rings have been found around Chariklo, Haumea and Quaoar, three small objects of the Solar System. All these rings are observed near the second-order spin-orbit resonances (SORs) 1/3 or 5/7 with the central body, suggesting an active…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Heikki Salo , Bruno Sicardy

This study examines the rotational characteristics of asteroids through statistical modeling of the diameter-period relationship. A statistical evaluation of the diameter-period relationship was conducted using a dataset of 34,326…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Maryam Nastaran , Atila Poro , Raziyeh Hosseini , Matin Najarzadeh

Empirically determining the averaged variations of the orbital parameters of the stars orbiting the Supermassive Black Hole (SBH) hosted by the Galactic Centre (GC) in Sgr A* is, in principle, a valuable tool to put on the test the General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-06 Lorenzo Iorio

We present high angular resolution 1.3 mm continuum, methyl cyanide molecular line, and 7 mm continuum observations made with the Submillimeter Array and the Very Large Array, toward the most highly obscured and southern part of the massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Luis A. Zapata , Paul T. P. Ho , Luis F. Rodriguez , Peter Schilke , Stan Kurtz

The presence of mean motion resonances (MMRs) complicates analysis and fitting of planetary systems observed through the radial velocity (RV) technique. MMR can allow planets to remain stable in regions of phase space where strong…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 M. M. Rosenthal , W. Jacobson-Galan , B. Nelson , R. A. Murray-Clay , J. A. Burt , B. Holden , E. Chang , N. Kaaz , J. Yant , R. P. Butler , S. S. Vogt

Our concern here is the nature of secondary resonances--commensurabilities between apsidal and libration periods lying within first-order mean motion resonances [mmr] in the solar system. At the 4/3 and 3/2 mmr in the asteroid belt, we find…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-03 Fred Franklin , Paul Soper

We study a simple model of dark matter that is gravitationally clustered around the sun in the form of a spherical halo of a degenerate gas of heavy neutrinos. It is shown that for neutrino masses $m_{\nu} \stackrel {\textstyle <}{\sim}…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Munyaneza , R. D. Viollier

The size distribution of small asteroids in the Main Belt is assumed to be determined by an equilibrium between the creation of new bodies out of the impact debris of larger asteroids and the destruction of small asteroids by collisions…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-04 Seth A. Jacobson , Francesco Marzari , Alessandro Rossi , Daniel J. Scheeres , Donald R. Davis

Assessing the stability of higher-dimensional rotating black holes requires a study of linearized gravitational perturbations around such backgrounds. We study perturbations of Myers-Perry black holes with equal angular momenta in an odd…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-29 Hari K. Kunduri , James Lucietti , Harvey S. Reall

In presence of magnetic fields, the orbits of charged particles can be displaced from the equatorial plane. We study circular orbits of electrically charged massive objects around a magnetic black hole in the probe approximation. We show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Jorge G. Russo

We present the results of 16 years of monitoring stellar orbits around the massive black hole in center of the Milky Way using high resolution NIR techniques. This work refines our previous analysis mainly by greatly improving the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 S. Gillessen , F. Eisenhauer , S. Trippe , T. Alexander , R. Genzel , F. Martins , T. Ott

We analytically work out the orbital effects caused by a Rindlertype extra-acceleration ARin which naturally arises in some recent models of modified gravity at large distances. In particular, we focus on the perturbations induced by it on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-24 Lorenzo Iorio

We use 23 years of astrometric and radial velocity data on the orbit of the star S0-2 to constrain a hypothetical intermediate-mass black hole orbiting the massive black hole Sgr A* at the Galactic center. The data place upper limits on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-13 Clifford M. Will , Smadar Naoz , Aurélien Hees , Alexandria Tucker , Eric Zhang , Tuan Do , Andrea Ghez

Caustic rings of dark matter with $\textit{tricusp}$ cross-section were predicted to lie in the galactic disk. Their radii increase on cosmological time scales at a rate of order $1$ kpc/Gyr. When a caustic ring passes through the orbit of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-21 Sankha S. Chakrabarty , Pierre Sikivie

The rotational distribution of asteroids as a function of their size is used {as a diagnostic of} their physical properties and evolution. Recent photometric surveys from the Gaia mission, allowing observation of asteroids with long spin…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-28 Wen-Han Zhou , Patrick Michel , Marco Delbo , Wenchao Wang , Bonny Y. Wang , Josef Ďurech , Josef Hanuš

The S-stars discovered in the Galactic center (GC) are expected to provide unique dynamical tests of the Kerr metric of the massive black hole (MBH) orbited by them. In order to obtain unbiased measurements of its spin and the related…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-01 Fupeng Zhang , Lorenzo Iorio