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Previous models have shown that stochastic scattering of stars in a two-dimensional galaxy disc can generate a time-independent surface density distribution that is an exponential divided by radius when a constant inward scattering bias is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-10 Jian Wu , Curtis Struck , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Elena D'Onghia

We investigate how significant the spiral structure is on calculations concerning radiative transfer in dusty spiral galaxies seen edge-on. The widely adopted exponential disk model (i.e. both the stars and the dust are distributed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Misiriotis , N. D. Kylafis , J. Papamastorakis , E. M. Xilouris

Distribution functions (DFs) for dynamically warm thin stellar disks residing in arbitrary axisymmetric potentials are presented which approximately reproduce pre-described surface-density and velocity-dispersion profiles. The functional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Walter Dehnen

Using a new algorithm for estimating the actions of orbits a parametrised distribution function is automatically fitted to observational data for the solar neighbourhood. We adopt a gravitational potential that is generated by three discs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 James Binney

The density distribution function of the integral of the exponential Brownian motion is determined explicitly in the form of a rapidly convergent series.

Probability · Mathematics 2009-04-14 Leonid Tolmatz

A general method is presented for constructing distribution functions for flat systems whose surface density and Toomre's Q number profile is given. The purpose of these functions is to provide plausible galactic models and assess their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Pichon , D. Lynden-Bell

There is a growing need for flexible statistical distributions that can accurately model data defined on the unit interval. This paper introduces a new unit distribution, termed the unit Shiha (USh) distribution, which is derived from the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-05 F. A. Shiha

An accurate computational method is presented to determine the mass distribution in a rotating thin-disk galaxy from given rotation curve by applying Newtonian dynamics for an axisymmetrically rotating thin disk of finite size with or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-17 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

We derive the pairwise peculiar velocity distribution function of dark matter particles applying the dark matter halo approach. Unlike the previous work, we do not assume a Gaussian velocity distribution function of dark matter in a single…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Takeshi Kuwabara , Atsushi Taruya , Yasushi Suto

Diffuse scattering of electromagnetic waves from natural and artificial surfaces has been extensively studied in various disciplines, including radio wave propagation, and several diffuse scattering models based on different approaches have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Enrico M. Vitucci , Nicolò Cenni , Franco Fuschini , Vittorio Degli-Esposti

We present accurate models of the gravitational potential produced by a radially exponential disk mass distribution. The models are produced by combining three separate Miyamoto-Nagai disks. Such models have been used previously to model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-10 Rory Smith , Chris Flynn , Graeme N. Candlish , Michael Fellhauer , Brad K. Gibson

Some formulae are presented for finding two-integral distribution functions (DFs) which depends only on the two classical integrals of the energy and the magnitude of the angular momentum with respect to the axis of symmetry for stellar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Zhenglu Jiang , Leonid Ossipkov

In this paper we propose a new method for reconstructing the surface density of matter in flat disks of spiral galaxies. The surface density is expressed through observational rotation velocity curves of visible matter in the disks of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Alexander Shatskiy , Igor Novikov , Olga K. Sil'chenko , Jakob Hansen , Ivan Yu. Katkov

We explored a method to reconstruct the distribution function of the Galactic thick disc within the action space where nearby thick-disc stars are distributed. By applying this method to 127 chemically-selected thick-disc stars in the Solar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 Kohei Hattori , Gerard Gilmore

Reflected diffusions in polyhedral domains are commonly used as approximate models for stochastic processing networks in heavy traffic. Stationary distributions of such models give useful information on the steady state performance of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-24 Amarjit Budhiraja , Jiang Chen , Sylvain Rubenthaler

The study of accurate methods to estimate the distribution of stellar rotational velocities is important for understanding many aspects of stellar evolution. From such observations we obtain the projected rotational speed v sin(i) in order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Rafael Orellana , Pedro Escarate , Michel Cure , Alejandra Christen , Rodrigo Carvajal , Juan Carlos Agüero

The velocity distribution of dark matter near the Earth is important for an accurate analysis of the signals in terrestrial detectors. This distribution is typically extracted from numerical simulations. Here we address the possibility of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Andreas Eilersen , Steen H. Hansen , Xingyu Zhang

The relaxed motion of stars and gas in galactic discs is well approximated by a rotational velocity that is a function of radial position only, implying that individual components have lost any information about their prior states.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-11 John Herbert Marr

This study investigates the ultraslow diffusion by a spatial structural derivative, in which the exponential function exp(x)is selected as the structural function to construct the local structural derivative diffusion equation model. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-14 Wei Xu , Wen Chen , Yingjie Liang , Jose Weberszpil

In this paper we revisit the issue of the propagation of warps in thin and viscous accretion discs. In this regime warps are know to propagate diffusively, with a diffusion coefficient approximately inversely proportional to the disc…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Lodato , D. Price
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