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Mass-modeling methods are used to infer the gravitational field of stellar systems, from globular clusters to giant elliptical galaxies. While many methods exist, most require assumptions about the form of the underlying distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-17 Andrés Bañares-Hernández , Justin I. Read , Mariana P. Júlio

We investigate potential systematic biases introduced by assumptions regarding stellar orbital anisotropy in joint lensing-dynamics modeling. Our study employs the massive early-type galaxies from the TNG100 simulation at redshifts z = 0.2,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-18 Yan Liang , Dandan Xu , Anowar J. Shajib , Yiping Shu , Ran Li

The shapes of individual self-gravitating structures of an ensemble of identical, collisionless particles have remained elusive for decades. In particular, a reason why mass density profiles like the Navarro-Frenk-White or the Einasto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Jenny Wagner

This is the second in a series of papers dedicated to unveil the mass structure and orbital content of a sample of flattened early-type galaxies in the Coma cluster. The ability of our orbit libraries to reconstruct internal stellar motions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Thomas , R. P. Saglia , R. Bender , D. Thomas , K. Gebhardt , J. Magorrian , E. M. Corsini , G. Wegner

The stability of rotating isotropic spherical stellar systems is investigated by using N-body simulations. Four spherical models with realistic density profiles are studied: one of them fits the luminosity profile of globular clusters,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andres Meza

In this Letter, we present five analytical models in closed forms, each representing a supermassive black hole (SMBH) located at the center of a galaxy surrounded by dark matter (DM) halo. The density profile of the halo vanishes inside…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-21 Zibo Shen , Anzhong Wang , Yungui Gong , Shaoyu Yin

We perform collisionless N-body simulations of 1:1 galaxy mergers, using models which include a galaxy halo, disc and bulge, focusing on the behaviour of the halo component. The galaxy models are constructed without recourse to a Maxwellian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. J. McMillan , E. Athanassoula , W. Dehnen

We present a theory in three parts, of the secular dynamics of a (Keplerian) stellar system of mass $M$ orbiting a black hole of mass $M_\bullet \gg M$. Here we describe the collisionless dynamics; Papers II and III are on the (collisional)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 S. Sridhar , Jihad R. Touma

The spectrum of cold dark matter particles on Earth is expected to have peaks in velocity space associated with particles which are falling onto the Galaxy for the first time and with particles which have fallen in and out of the Galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 P. Sikivie , I. I. Tkachev , Yun Wang

In this article we obtain a new anisotropic solution for Einstein's field equation of embedding class one metric. The solution is representing the realistic objects such as $Her~X-1$ and $RXJ~1856-37$. We perform detailed investigation of…

General Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 S. K. Maurya , Y. K. Gupta , Baiju Dayanandan , Saibal Ray

Context. Current constraints on distributed matter in the innermost Galactic Centre (such as a cluster of faint stars and stellar remnants, Dark Matter or a combination thereof) based on the orbital dynamics of the visible stars closest to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Thibault Lechien , Gernot Heißel , Jai Grover , Dario Izzo

The anisotropy parameter $\beta$ characterizes the extent to which orbits in stellar systems are predominantly radial or tangential, and is likely to constrain, for the stellar halo of the Milky Way, scenarios for its formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-06 Sarah A. Bird , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Chao Liu , Juntai Shen , Chris Flynn , Chengqun Yang

In this paper, we shall consider spherically symmetric spacetime solutions describing the interior of stellar compact objects, in the context of higher-order curvature theory of the f(R) type. We shall derive the non--vacuum field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-28 G. G. L. Nashed , S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

Starting from the hypothesis that the Galaxy's dark halo responded adiabatically to the infall of baryons, we have constructed a self-consistent dynamical model of the Galaxy that satisfies a large number of observations, including…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 James Binney , Tilmann Piffl

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 construct mass models of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies to place constraints on the central black hole (BH) masses they can host. We model the galaxies as a three-component system consisting of the stars, dark matter halo, and a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-17 K. Aditya , A. Mangalam

We build a spherical halo model for galaxies using a general scalar-tensor theory of gravity in its Newtonian limit. The scalar field is described by a time-independent Klein-Gordon equation with a source that is coupled to the standard…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-03-24 Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota , Mario A. Rodriguez-Meza , Dario Nunez

Conventional studies of galaxy clustering within the framework of halo models typically assume that the density profile of all dark matter haloes can be approximated by the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) spherically symmetric profile. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Anna Durkalec , Agnieszka Pollo , Ummi Abbas

In present work, we have studied a new stellar distribution model with spherically symmetric matter and an uncharged isotropic distribution in general relativity. In this model, we have considered a particular metric potential. The model is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-03 Amit Kumar Prasad , Jitendra Kumar , Ashok Kumar

The dwarf spheroidal galaxy, Segue 1, is thought to have one of the largest ratios of dark matter to stellar mass. Using orbit-based dynamical models, we model Segue 1, including a dark halo and a central black hole. The best-fit model…