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I developed an efficient numerical method for obtaining the gravitational potential of razor-thin spiral perturbations and used it to assess the standard tight-winding approximation, which is found to be reasonably accurate for pitch angles…

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The optically induced oscillatory response of a spherical two-component, shell-core structured, nanoparticle by nodeless elastic vibrations of soft peripheral shell against hard and dynamically immobile inner core is considered. The…

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We calculate the excitation and dissipation of low-frequency tidal oscillations in uniformly rotating solar-type stars. For tidal frequencies smaller than twice the spin frequency, inertial waves are excited in the convective envelope and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 G. I. Ogilvie , D. N. C. Lin

A connection between classical non-radiating sources and free-particle wave equations in quantum mechanics is rigorously made. It is proven that free-particle wave equations for all spins have currents which can be defined which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark P. Davidson

Testing modified theories of gravity with direct observations of the parameters of a neutron star is not the optimal way of testing gravitational theories. However, observing electromagnetic signals originating from the close vicinity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-06 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In this article, we investigate the wave equation in spiral geometry and study the modes of vibrations of a one-dimensional (1-D) string in spiral shape. Here we show that the problem of wave propagation along a spiral can be reduced to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 Deep Chatterjee , Rajesh K. Nayak

This revision includes clarified exposition and simplified analysis. Solutions of the Einstein equations which are periodic and have standing gravitational waves are valuable approximations to more physically realistic solutions with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steven Detweiler

We investigate exact nonlinear waves on surfaces locally approximating the rotating sphere for two-dimensional inviscid incompressible flow. Our first system corresponds to a beta-plane approximation at the equator and the second to a gamma…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Nick Pizzo , Rick Salmon

In this paper, we calculate the analytical solutions for the radii of planar and polar spherical photon orbits around a rotating black hole that is associated with quintessential field and cloud of strings. This includes a full analytical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-05 Mohsen Fathi , Marco Olivares , J. R. Villanueva

In calculations of the inspiral of binary black holes an intermediate approximation is needed that can bridge the post-Newtonian methods of the early inspiral and the numerical relativity computations of the final plunge. We describe here…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin Bromley , Robert Owen , Richard H. Price

We solve for waves in an isothermal, stratified medium with a magnetic field that points along a direction perpendicular to that of gravity and varies exponentially in the direction of gravity. We find exact analytical solutions for two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-17 B. Tripathi , Dhrubaditya Mitra

We demonstrate the results of an attempt to match the two-soliton analytical solution with the numerically produced solutions of the Einstein field equations, that describe the spacetime exterior of rotating neutron stars, for arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-31 George Pappas

We present an accurate approximation of the full gravitational radiation waveforms generated in the merger of non-eccentric systems of two non-spinning black holes. Utilizing information from recent numerical relativity simulations and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandra Buonanno , Yi Pan , John G. Baker , Joan Centrella , Bernard J. Kelly , Sean T. McWilliams , James R. van Meter

The motion of a spinning particle in the exterior of a Kerr-Newman black hole is studied. The dynamics is governed by the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations in the pole-dipole approximation, including the spin-curvature coupling to leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Yi-Ping Chen , Tien Hsieh , Da-Shin Lee

We provide an example of how the complex dynamics of a recently introduced model can be understood via a detailed analysis of its associated Riemann surface. Thanks to this geometric description an explicit formula for the period of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-19 David Gomez-Ullate , Paolo Santini , Matteo Sommacal , Francesco Calogero

We calculate the gravitational waveform for spinning, precessing compact binary inspirals through second post-Newtonian order in the amplitude. When spins are collinear with the orbital angular momentum and the orbits are quasi-circular, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-19 Alessandra Buonanno , Guillaume Faye , Tanja Hinderer

We investigate the properties of forced inertial modes of a rotating fluid inside a spherical shell. Our forcing is tidal like, but its main property is that it is on the large scales. Our solutions first confirm some analytical results…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Rieutord , L. Valdettaro

Tidal interactions in close star-planet or binary star systems may excite inertial waves (their restoring force is the Coriolis force) in the convective region of the stars. The dissipation of these waves plays a prominent role in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-16 Mathieu Guenel , Stéphane Mathis , Clément Baruteau , Michel Rieutord

Starting from a solution of the problem of a mechanical oscillator coupled to a scalar field inside a reflecting sphere of radius $R$, we study the behaviour of the system in free space as the limit of an arbitrarily large radius in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. P. Andion , A. P. C. Malbouisson , A. Mattos Neto

Axisymmetric rotating radially excited boson stars are analyzed. For several fixed parameter sets, the full sets of solutions are obtained. In contrast to the nodeless boson stars, the radially excited sets of solutions do not exhibit a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-08 Lucas G. Collodel , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz