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We examine the behaviour of an axisymmetric galactic dynamo model with a radial accretion flow in the disc. We also introduce a vertical magnetic flux through the galactic midplane, to simulate the presence of a large scale magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Moss , Anvar Shukurov

The space based gravitational wave detector LISA is expected to observe a large population of Galactic white dwarf binaries whose collective signal is likely to dominate instrumental noise at observational frequencies in the range 10^{-4}…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Soumya D. Mohanty , Rajesh K. Nayak

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 consider an influence of a non-stationary gravitational field of the Galaxy on the visible positions of extragalactic sources. A contribution of the baryonic component of the galactic matter as well as of the hidden matter (including a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-03 T. I. Larchenkova , A. A. Lutovinov , N. S. Lyskova

We consider the assimilation of Lagrangian data into a primitive equations circulation model of the ocean at basin scale. The Lagrangian data are positions of floats drifting at fixed depth. We aim at reconstructing the four-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Maëlle Nodet

The redshift-space correlation function $\xi_s$ for projected galaxy separations $\simless 1h^{-1}$ Mpc can be expressed as the convolution of the real-space correlation function with the galaxy pairwise velocity distribution function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Antonaldo Diaferio , Margaret J. Geller

We present a preliminary analysis of the effect of dynamical friction on the orbits of part of the globular clusters in our Galaxy. Our study considers an anisotropic velocity dispersion field approximated using the results of studies in…

The stochastic motion in a nonhomogeneous medium with traps is studied and diffusion properties of that system are discussed. The particle is subjected to a stochastic stimulation obeying a general L\'evy stable statistics and experiences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomasz Srokowski

Using a numerical simulation of an isolated barred disc galaxy, we first demonstrate that the resonances of the inner bar structure induce more prominent features in the action space distribution for the kinematically hotter stars, which…

The quality and quantity of 6D stellar position-velocity measurements in the second Gaia data release (DR2) allows to study small-scale structure in the orbit distribution of the Galactic disc beyond the immediate Solar neighborhood. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Wilma H. Trick , Johanna Coronado , Hans-Walter Rix

Attempts to understand the dynamics of warped astrophysical discs have garnered significant attention, largely motivated by the growing catalogue of observed distorted systems. Previous studies have shown that the evolution of the warp is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Callum W. Fairbairn , Gordon I. Ogilvie

A lot of efforts have been devoted in the last decade to the investigation of the high-frequency behaviour of geometric functionals for the excursion sets of random spherical harmonics, i.e., Gaussian eigenfunctions for the spherical…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Domenico Marinucci

In the present article, we investigate the behavior of orbits in a time independent axially symmetric galactic type potential. This dynamical model can be considered to describe the motion in the central parts of a galaxy, for values of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-06-13 Euaggelos E. Zotos

Here, we model the effect of non-uniform dynamical mass distributions and their associated gravitational fields on the stationary galactic superwind solution. We do this by considering an analogue injection of mass and energy from stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-04 G. A. Añorve-Zeferino , M. G. Corona-Galindo

We study the explicitly time-dependent response of a razor-thin axisymmetric disc to externally imposed perturbations by recasting the linearized Collisionless Boltzmann equation as an integral equation and applying Kalnajs' matrix method.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-01 Dominic Dootson , John Magorrian

In this review, I discuss just three aspects of the stability and evolution of galactic discs. (1) I first review our understanding of the bar instability and how it can be controlled. Disc galaxies in which the orbital speed does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Sellwood

We consider the propagation of galactic cosmic rays under assumption that the interstellar medium is a fractal one. An anomalous diffusion equation in terms of fractional derivatives is used to describe of cosmic ray propagation. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Lagutin , V. V. Uchaikin

In this work, we apply a fast and accurate numerical method for solving fractional reaction-diffusion equations in unbounded domains. By using the Fourier-like spectral approach in space, this method can effectively handle the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Huifang Yuan

We test methods for the determination of unstable modes in stellar discs: a point collocation scheme in the action sub-space, a scheme based on expansion of the density and potential on the biorthonormal basis, and a finite element method.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Evgeny Polyachenko , Andreas Just

Knowledge about the magnetic fields in supernova remnants (SNRs) is of paramount importance for constraining Galactic cosmic ray acceleration models. It could also indirectly provide information on the interstellar magnetic fields. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-23 Shinsuke Ideguchi , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Takuya Akahori , Keitaro Takahashi