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We study the gravitational instability of a general relativistic complex scalar field with a quartic self-interaction in an infinite homogeneous static background. This quantum relativistic Jeans problem provides a simplified framework to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-24 Abril Suárez , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

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

We present an analytic approach to lift the mass-anisotropy degeneracy in clusters of galaxies by utilizing the line-of-sight velocity dispersion of clustered galaxies jointly with weak lensing inferred masses. More specifically, we solve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-28 Alejo Stark , Christopher J. Miller , Vitali Halenka

In the paper we discuss equilibrium states of stars, using a simplified analytic model. A star is considered as self-graviting body of gas. We use a condition for the equilibrium state of the body in the form of a differential equation,…

General Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 Andrei Smirnov , Ricardo Max Menezes Oliveira

We study the local gravitational instability of non-rotating astrophysical fluids allowing for the presence of an external gravitational potential in addition to the fluid self-gravity. We present a self-consistent linear-perturbation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Carlo Nipoti

We study some properties of static spherically symmetric elastic bodies in general relativity using both analytical and numerical tools. The materials considered belong to the class of John elastic materials and reduce to perfect fluids…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Håkan Andréasson , Simone Calogero

Several works have recently applied Jeans modelling to Gaia-based datasets to infer the circular velocity curve for the Milky Way. Such works have consistently found evidence for a continuous decline in the rotation curve beyond $\sim$15kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Orlin Koop , Teresa Antoja , Amina Helmi , Thomas M. Callingham , Chervin F. P. Laporte

The kinematics of stars and ionized gas has been studied near the center of the S0 galaxy NGC 4036. Dynamical models based both on stellar photometry and kinematics have been built in order to derive the gravitational potential in which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. M. Corsini , F. Bertola , M. Sarzi , P. Cinzano , H. -W. Rix , W. W. Zeilinger

We study the internal kinematics of galaxy clusters in the region beyond the sphere of virialization. Galaxies around a virialized cluster are infalling towards the cluster centre with a non-zero mean radial velocity. We develop a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-23 Martina Falco , Gary A. Mamon , Radoslaw Wojtak , Steen H. Hansen , Stefan Gottlöber

Several mechanisms have been identified that create dense particle clumps in the solar nebula. The present work is concerned with the gravitational collapse of such clumps, idealized as being spherically symmetric. Calculations using the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-01 Karim Shariff , Jeffrey N. Cuzzi

We consider the singular Rayleigh-Jeans equilibrium of the $4$-waves kinetic turbulence equation for the three dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger equation. We first show the formation in finite time of a Dirac measure at zero frequency in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Miguel Escobedo , Angeliki Menegaki

The concept of Jeans gravitational instability is rediscussed in the framework of nonextensive statistics and its associated kinetic theory. A simple analytical formula generalizing the Jeans criterion is derived by assuming that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. S. Lima , R. Silva , J. Santos

A linear analytical solution is derived for the gravitational shock wave produced by a particle of mass $M$ that decays into a pair of null particles. The resulting space-time is shown to be unperturbed and isotropic, except for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Kris Mackewicz , Craig Hogan

We consider the four waves spatial homogeneous kinetic equation arising in wave turbulence theory. We study the long-time behaviour and existence of solutions around the Rayleigh-Jeans equilibrium solutions. For cut-off'd frequencies, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Angeliki Menegaki

We have performed a series of high resolution N-body experiments on a Connection Machine CM-5 in order to study the stability of collisionless self-gravitating spherical systems. We interpret our results in the framework of symplectic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Perez , J-M Alimi , J-J Aly , H. Scholl

Cappellari (2008) presented a flexible and efficient method to model the stellar kinematics of anisotropic axisymmetric and spherical stellar systems. The spherical formalism could be used to model the line-of-sight velocity second moments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-04 Michele Cappellari

For a general spherically four--dimensional metric the notion of "circularity" of a family of equatorial geodesic trajectories is defined in geometrical terms. The main object turns out to be the angular--momentum function $J$ obeying a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-08 Wolfgang Graf

Traditionally, the mass / velocity anisotropy degeneracy (MAD) inherent in the spherical, stationary, non-streaming Jeans equation has been handled by assuming a mass profile and fitting models to the observed kinematical data. Here, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-11 Gary A. Mamon , Gwenael Boué

We study the spherically symmetric collapsing star in terms of dynamical instability. We take the framework of extended teleparallel gravity with non-diagonal tetrad, power-law form of model presenting torsion and matter distribution as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-16 Abdul Jawad , Shamaila Rani

The hypothesis of antigravitational interaction of elementary particles and antiparticles is considered on the basis of the simple two-component hydrodynamic model with gravitational repulsion and attraction. It is shown increasing of the…

General Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 I. Gribov , S. A. Trigger