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Rotation is ubiquitous in the Universe, and recent kinematic surveys have shown that early type galaxies and globular clusters are no exception. Yet the linear response of spheroidal rotating stellar systems has seldom been studied. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-15 Simon Rozier , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Philip G. Breen , Anna Lisa Varri , Christophe Pichon , Douglas C. Heggie

We present an approach to the design of distribution functions that depend on the phase-space coordinates through the action integrals. The approach makes it easy to construct a dynamical model of a given stellar component. We illustrate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Lorenzo Posti , James Binney , Carlo Nipoti , Luca Ciotti

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are prime laboratories for studying dark matter (DM) and the black hole demographics in the low-mass regime. These systems are also often flattened; nevertheless most studies rely on spherical models,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 R. Pascale , G. Battaglia , J. M. Arroyo-Polonio , E. Vasiliev , C. Nipoti , G. F. Thomas

We show different expressions of distribution functions (DFs) which depend 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 systems with known…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Zhenglu Jiang , Leonid Ossipkov

Recently, two-component spherical galaxy models have been presented, where the stellar profile is described by a Jaffe law, and the total density by another Jaffe law, or by an $r^{-3}$ law at large radii. We extend these two families to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 L. Ciotti , A. Mancino , S. Pellegrini , A. Ziaee Lorzad

The Jeans equations give the second moments or stresses required to support a stellar population against the gravity field. A general solution of the Jeans equations for arbitrary axisymmetric scale-free densities in flattened scale-free…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 N. W. Evans , R. M. Häfner , P. T. de Zeeuw

Analytic distribution functions (DFs) for the Galactic disc are discussed. The DFs depend on action variables and their predictions for observable quantities are explored under the assumption that the motion perpendicular to the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 James Binney

[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

We construct stable axially symmetric models of elliptical galaxies. The particle density on phase space for these models depends monotonically on the particle energy and on the third component of the angular momentum. They are obtained as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yan Guo , Gerhard Rein

Dark Matter (DM) direct detection experiments usually assume the simplest possible 'Standard Halo Model' for the Milky Way (MW) halo in which the velocity distribution is Maxwellian. This model assumes that the MW halo is an isotropic,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-02 Mattia Fornasa , Anne M. Green

We present a family of self-consistent, spherical, lowered isothermal models, consisting of one or more mass components, with parameterised prescriptions for the energy truncation and for the amount of radially biased pressure anisotropy.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-20 Mark Gieles , Alice Zocchi

In the present paper we show how obtain the energy distribution f(E) in our vicinity starting from WIMP density profiles in a self consistent way by employing the Eddington approach and adding reasonable angular momentum dependent terms in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-04 J. D. Vergados

Networks of coupled degrade-and-fire (DF) oscillators are simple dynamical models of assemblies of interacting self-repressing genes. For mean-field interactions, which most mathematical studies have assumed so far, every trajectory must…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-05-25 Alex Blumenthal , Bastien Fernandez

Using high-resolution non-radiative hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy clusters we obtain simple analytic formulae for DM and gas distribution in the spherical approximation. We derive fits for the DM density, velocity dispersion and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Elena Rasia , Giuseppe Tormen , Lauro Moscardini

Two dimensional realizations of self-consistent models for the ``perfect elliptic disks'' were tested for global stability by gravitational N-body integration. The family of perfect elliptic disk potentials have two isolating integrals;…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Stephen Levine , Linda Sparke

Isolated, steady-state galaxies correspond to equilibrium solutions of the Poisson--Vlasov system. We show that (i) all galaxies with a distribution function depending on energy alone must be spherically symmetric and (ii) all axisymmetric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 J. An , N. W. Evans , J. L. Sanders

A simple numerical scheme is presented for the construction of three-integral phase-space distribution functions for oblate galaxy models with a gravitational potential of St\"{a}ckel form, and an arbitrary axisymmetric luminous density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. H. A. Robijn , P. T. de Zeeuw

Two new families of self-consistent axisymmetric truncated equilibrium models for the description of quasi-relaxed rotating stellar systems are presented. The first extends the spherical King models to the case of solid-body rotation. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 A. L. Varri , G. Bertin

We present a simple and efficient anisotropic generalization of the semi-isotropic (two-integral) axisymmetric Jeans formalism which is used to model the stellar kinematics of galaxies. The following is assumed: (i) a constant mass-to-light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-06 Michele Cappellari

Fully analytical dynamical models usually have an infinite extent, while real star clusters, galaxies, and dark matter haloes have a finite extent. The standard method for generating dynamical models with a finite extent consists of taking…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Maarten Baes , Bert Vander Meulen