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This paper presents elements about the radial orbit instability, which occurs in spherical self-gravitating systems with a strong anisotropy in the radial velocity direction. It contains an overview on the history of radial orbit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-03 Lionel Maréchal , Jérôme Perez

We present a class of new relativistic solutions with anisotropic fluid for compact stars in hydrostatic equilibrium. The interior space-time geometry considered here for compact objects are described by parameters namely, $\lambda$, $k$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-25 Bikash Chandra Paul , Rumi Deb

A tensor virial approach is used to construct detailed models of 22 flattened ellipticals. The models are combined with the new observational data: extended surface brightness distributions, the profiles of isophotes flattening and their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 B. P. Kondratyev , E. N. Kireeva

For general relativistic equilibrium stellar models (stationary axisymmetric asymptotically flat and convection-free) with differential rotation, it is shown that for a wide class of rotation laws the distribution of angular velocity of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Pareja

In the context of the study of the properties of the mutual mass distribution of the bright and dark matter in elliptical galaxies, present a family of two-component, spherical, self-consistent galaxy models, where one density distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Ciotti

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

The stellar orbital anisotropy parameter ($\beta_{\rm ani}$) is a persistent systematic uncertainty in galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing (SGL) cosmology. Typically fixed to isotropy or a local prior, it frequently degenerates with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Jian Hu , Yi Liu , Jian-Ping Hu , Zhongmu Li

We test claims of large-scale anisotropy in the local expansion rate using cluster scaling relations as distance indicators. Using a Bayesian forward model, we jointly fit the X-ray luminosity--temperature (LT) and thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Tariq Yasin , Richard Stiskalek , Harry Desmond , Sebastian von Hausegger , Pedro G. Ferreira

We study the effects of anisotropic pressure on the properties of spherically symmetric, gravitationally bound objects. We consider the full general relativistic treatment of this problem and obtain exact solutions for various form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Krsna Dev , Marcelo Gleiser

The evolution of globular clusters driven by two-body relaxation is investigated by means of numerical integration of the two-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation in energy--angular momentum space. The two- dimensional Fokker-Planck equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Koji Takahashi

We derive a new interior solution for stellar compact objects in $f\mathcal{(R)}$ gravity assuming a differential relation to constrain the Ricci curvature scalar. To this aim, we consider specific forms for the radial component of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-03 G. G. L. Nashed , S. Capozziello

We have provided here a new class of interior solutions for anisotropic stars admitting conformal motion in higher dimensional noncommutative spacetime. The Einstein fields equations are solved by choosing a particular density distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-15 Piyali Bhar , Farook Rahaman , Saibal Ray , Vikram Chatterjee

This paper is the third in a series investigating, by means of $N$-body simulations, the implications of an initial radially anisotropic velocity distribution on the dynamics of star clusters. Such a velocity distribution may be imprinted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Václav Pavlík , Enrico Vesperini

We examine the thermodynamical properties of a family of partially relaxed, anisotropic stellar systems, derived earlier from the Boltzmann entropy under the assumption that a third quantity Q is conserved in addition to the total energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Bertin , M. Trenti

Understanding the role of pressure anisotropy and dissipation is crucial for modelling compact objects' internal structure and observable properties. In this work, we reinterpret local pressure anisotropy in relativistic stellar structures…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Justo Ospino , Daniel Suárez-Urango , Laura M. Becerra , Héctor Hernández , Luis A. Núñez

Starting from the central density slope-anisotropy theorem of An and Evans (2006), recent investigations have shown that the involved density slope-anisotropy inequality holds not only at the center, but at all radii (i.e. globally) in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Luca Ciotti , Lucia Morganti

A recent study of the rotation of the plane of polarization of light from 160 cosmological sources claims to find significant evidence for cosmological anisotropy. We point out methodological weaknesses of that study, and reanalyze the same…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Thomas J. Loredo , Eanna E. Flanagan , Ira M. Wasserman

In this paper, we analyze stability regions of a non-static restricted class of axially symmetric spacetime with anisotropic matter distribution. We consider $f(R)=R+{\epsilon}R^2$ model and assume hydrostatic equilibrium of the axial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-19 M. Sharif , Z. Yousaf

The main instabilities induced by rotation in stellar interiors are described. We derive from first principles the general equation describing the transport of the angular momentum. The case of the transport of the chemical species is also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Georges Meynet , Andre Maeder

Recent high-precision observations with HST and Gaia enabled new investigations of the internal kinematics of star clusters (SCs) and the dependence of kinematic properties on the stellar mass. These studies raised new questions about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-25 Václav Pavlík , Douglas C. Heggie , Anna Lisa Varri , Enrico Vesperini