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We investigate spherically symmetric equilibrium states of the Vlasov-Poisson system, relevant in galactic dynamics. We recast the equations into a regular three-dimensional system of autonomous first order ordinary differential equations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-10-31 J. Mark Heinzle , Alan D. Rendall , Claes Uggla

We obtain a natural extension of the Vlasov-Poisson system for stellar dynamics to spaces of constant Gaussian curvature $\kappa\ne 0$: the unit sphere $\mathbb S^2$, for $\kappa>0$, and the unit hyperbolic sphere $\mathbb H^2$, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Florin Diacu , Slim Ibrahim , Crystal Lind , Shengyi Shen

We study spherical and disk clusters in a near-Keplerian potential of galactic centers or massive black holes. In such a potential orbit precession is commonly retrograde, i.e. direction of the orbit precession is opposite to the orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. V. Polyachenko , V. L. Polyachenko , I. G. Shukhman

Recent work on the equilibrium and stability of ellipsoidal stellar systems is reviewed. The absence of constant-density cores in early-type galaxies implies that chaos and high-order resonances are generic features of the motion in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Merritt , Tema Fridman

We consider a self-gravitating collisionless gas where the gravitational interaction is modeled according to MOND (modified Newtonian dynamics). For the resulting modified Vlasov-Poisson system we establish the existence of spherically…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Gerhard Rein

We consider stability of non-rotating viscous gaseous stars modeled by the Navier-Stokes-Poisson system. Under general assumptions on the equations of states, we proved that the number of unstable modes for the linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Ming Cheng , Zhiwu Lin , Yucong Wang

The model of galactic halo as a system of the collisionless small neutral particles from the standpoint of kinetic theory is considered. For the equilibrium system with the use of Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution we obtained results which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-03 Valentin D. Gladush

This review presents an upgraded wave theory adapted to the high fluctuation level of driven realistic i.e. non-idealized plasmas. Above all, this means giving up the well-known concept of a linear wave theory in favor of a thoroughly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Hans Schamel

The motion of a collisionless plasma - a high-temperature, low-density, ionized gas - is described by the Vlasov-Maxwell system. In the presence of large velocities, relativistic corrections are meaningful, and when symmetry of the particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Robert Glassey , Stephen Pankavich , Jack Schaeffer

We have previously introduced the parameter `alpha' as an indicator of stability to m=2 nonaxisymmetric modes in rotating, self-gravitating, axisymmetric, gaseous and stellar systems. This parameter can be written as a function of the total…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. M. Christodoulou , I. Shlosman , J. E. Tohline

We consider spherically symmetric steady states of the Vlasov-Poisson system, which describe equilibrium configurations of galaxies or globular clusters. If the microscopic equation of state, i.e., the dependence of the steady state on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Tobias Ramming , Gerhard Rein

We have examined the stability of a sequence of oblate elliptical galaxy models having the Stackel form suggested by Kuz'min & Kutuzov. We have employed the 2-integral DFs given by Dejonghe & de Zeeuw for which flattened non-rotating models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. A. Sellwood , M. Valluri

I argue that the widely adopted framework of stellar dynamics survived since 1940s, is not fitting the current knowledge on non-linear systems. Borrowed from plasma physics when several fundamental features of perturbed non-linear systems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. G. Gurzadyan

The nonlinear evolution of a unstable electrostatic wave is considered for a multi-species Vlasov plasma. From the singularity structure of the associated amplitude expansions, the asymptotic features of the electric field and distribution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 John David Crawford , Anandhan Jayaraman

In this paper we propose a notion of stability, that we call $\epsilon -N$-stability, for systems of particles interacting via Newton's gravitational potential, and orbiting a much bigger object. For these systems the usual thermodynamical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 Gabriella Pinzari , Benedetto Scoppola , Alessio Troiani

[Abridged] N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues to the construction of realistic stellar dynamical models of elliptical galaxies. Understanding this idealized and relatively simple process, by which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Trenti , G. Bertin , T. S. van Albada

This paper is devoted to study the stability/instability of the expansionfree self gravitating source in the framework of Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity. The source has been taken as Tolman-Bondi model which is homogenous in nature. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-22 G. Abbas , S. Sarwar

A new class of models of stellar discs is introduced and used to build a self-consistent model of our Galaxy. The model is defined by the parameters that specify the action-based distribution functions (DFs) f(J) of four stellar discs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 James Binney , Eugene Vasiliev

In this paper, we present our conclusions from the numerical study of the collapse of a destabilized collisionless stellar system. We use both direct integration of the Vlasov-Poisson equations and an N-body tree code to obtain our results,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas E. C. Merrall , Richard N. Henriksen

Dynamical analysis of spherically symmetric collapsing star surrounding in locally anisotropic environment with expansion-free condition is presented in $f(R,T)$ gravity, where $R$ corresponds to Ricci scalar and $T$ stands for the trace of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-21 Ifra Noureen , M. Zubair