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We propose a new, general form for a pseudo-Newtonian gravitational potential (PNP), expressed as a series of Paczy\'nski-Wiita-like functions with the addition of increasing negative powers of $r$ with arbitrary coefficients. We present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Itamar Ben Arosh Arad , Reem Sari

A generalized Newtonian potential is derived from the geodesic motion of test particles in Schwarzschild spacetime. This potential reproduces several relativistic features with higher accuracy than commonly used pseudo-Newtonian approaches.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-17 Emilio Tejeda , Stephan Rosswog

Pseudo-Newtonian potentials are a tool often used in theoretical astrophysics to capture some key features of a black-hole space-time in a Newtonian framework. As a result, one can use Newtonian numerical codes, and Newtonian formalism in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-08 Vojtech Witzany , Claus Laemmerzahl

The pseudo-Newtonian potential of Paczynski and Wiita for particles orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole is generalized to arbitrary static and spherically symmetric spacetimes, including black hole solutions of alternative theories of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-24 Valerio Faraoni , Shawn D. Belknap-Keet , Marianne Lapierre-Leonard

Pseudo-Newtonian gravitational potential describing the gravitational field of static and spherically symmetric black holes in the universe with a repulsive cosmological constant is introduced. In order to demonstrate the accuracy of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Zdenek Stuchlik , Jiri Kovar

We calculate the perihelion precession delta for nearly circular orbits in a central potential V(r). Differently from other approaches to this problem, we do not assume that the potential is close to the Newtonian one. The main idea in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 H. -J. Schmidt

We numerically investigate the motion of stars on the meridional plane of an axially symmetric disk galaxy model, containing a central supermassive black hole, represented by the Paczynski-Wiita potential. By using this pseudo-Newtonian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-12 Euaggelos E. Zotos , F. L. Dubeibe , André F. Steklain , Tareq Saeed

Pseudo-Newtonian Potential has always been a useful tool to discuss the motion of a particle in space-time to avoid the tedious and nearly impossible nonlinear computations coming from the field equations of general relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-13 Siddhartha Sankar Sarkar , Ritabrata Biswas

We investigate the extent to which pseudo-Newtonian gravitational potentials can reproduce classic tests of general relativity without resorting to full general relativistic formalisms. This is useful for the researchers seeking intuitive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 Naman Goyal , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Ashish Kumar Meena

We construct a pseudo-Newtonian potential (PNP) corresponding to a rotating black hole solution in a modified gravity (MGR) framework using a metric-based prescription. The motivation is to enable realistic accretion disk studies in MGR,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 Sriraj Chandra , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

A number of `modified' Newtonian potentials of various forms are available in the literature which accurately approximate some general relativistic effects important for studying accretion discs around a Schwarzschild black hole. Such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tapas Kumar Das , Aveek Sarkar

Pseudo-Newtonian gravitational potential introduced in spherically symmetric black-hole spacetimes with a repulsive cosmological constant is tested for equilibrium toroidal configurations of barotropic perfect fluid orbiting the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-04 Z. Stuchlik , P. Slany , J. Kovar

In this paper we use a modification of the Newtonian gravitational potential with a non-linear Yukawa-like correction, as it was proposed by C. Will earlier to obtain new bounds on graviton mass from the observed orbits of S-stars around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-16 Predrag Jovanović , Vesna Borka Jovanović , Duško Borka , Alexander F. Zakharov

High order corrections to the perihelion precession are obtained in non-Newtonian central potentials, via complex analysis techniques. The result is an exact series expansion whose terms, for a perturbation of the form $\delta…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Michele Andreoli

In a previous paper, I demonstrated the accuracy of simple, precessing, power ellipse (p-ellipse) approximations to orbits of low-to-moderate eccentricity in power-law potentials. Here I explore several extensions of these approximations to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Curtis Struck

Curves in a family derived from powers of the polar coordinate formula for ellipses are found to provide good fits to bound orbits in a range of power-law potentials. This range includes the well-known $1/r$ (Keplerian) and logarithmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Curtis Struck

The problem of a compact binary system whose components move on circular orbits is addressed using two different approximation techniques in general relativity. The post-Newtonian (PN) approximation involves an expansion in powers of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Luc Blanchet , Steven Detweiler , Alexandre Le Tiec , Bernard F. Whiting

We consider the equatorial circular motion of a test particle of specific charge q/m << 1 in the Kerr-Newman geometry of a rotating charged black hole. We find the particle's conserved energy and conserved projection of the angular momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Rossen I. Ivanov , Emil M. Prodanov

In this paper, we introduce the concept of quasi-semi hyperbolic pseudo-orbits and prove that quasi-semi hyperbolicity implies quasi hyperbolicity provided the error magnitude are sufficiently small. We also have successively demonstrated…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Yan He , Meihua Jin

The post-Newtonian approximation is useful to discuss gravitational waveforms for binary inspirals. In this note, for retrograde circular orbits in the equatorial plane, we discuss the region of validity of the post-Newtonian approximation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-22 Ryuichi Fujita , Norichika Sago , Hiroyuki Nakano
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