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When a self-gravitating spherical gas cloud collapses or accretes onto a central mass, the inner region of the cloud develops a density profile $\rho\propto r^{-3/2}$ and the velocity approaches free-fall. We show that in this region,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dong Lai , Peter Goldreich

Using the analytic, global solution for the rigidly rotating disc of dust as a starting point, an iteration scheme is presented for the calculation of an arbitrary coefficient in the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation of this solution. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-23 D. Petroff , R. Meinel

The formation of massive black holes and their coevolution with host galaxies are pivotal areas of modern astrophysics. Spherical accretion onto a central point mass serves as a foundational framework in cosmological simulations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Razieh Ranjbar , Héctor R. Olivares-Sánchez , Shahram Abbassi

A Fokker action for post-Minkowski approximation with the first post-Newtonian correction is introduced in our previous paper, and a solution for the helically symmetric circular orbit is obtained. We present supplemental results for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew M. Glenz , Koji Uryu

Using the (3+1) formalism in general relativity, we perform the post-Newtonian(PN) approximation to clarify what sort of gauge condition is suitable for numerical analysis of coalescing compact binary neutron stars and gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Hideki Asada , Masaru Shibata , Toshifumi Futamase

The relativistic motion of a compact binary system moving in circular orbit is investigated using the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation and the perturbative self-force (SF) formalism. A particular gauge-invariant observable quantity is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 Luc Blanchet , Steven Detweiler , Alexandre Le Tiec , Bernard F. Whiting

Pseudo-Newtonian potentials are a tool often used in theoretical astrophysics to capture some key features of a black-hole space-time in a Newtonian framework. As a result, one can use Newtonian numerical codes, and Newtonian formalism in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-08 Vojtech Witzany , Claus Laemmerzahl

The accretion of matter onto celestial bodies like black holes and neutron stars is a natural phenomenon that releases up to $40\%$ of the matter's rest-mass energy, which is considered a source of radiation. In active galactic nuclei and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-25 G. Abbas , Hamza Rehman , M. Usama , Tao Zhu

In the present study time evolution of quasi-spherical polytropic accretion flow with toroidal magnetic field is investigated. The study especially focused the astrophysically important case in which the adiabatic exponent $\gamma=5/3$. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-11 Alireza Khesali , Kazem Faghei

We study models of uniformly and differentially rotating neutron stars in the framework of post-Newtonian approximation in general relativity as established by Chandrasechar. In particular, we adopt the polytropic equation of state in order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-05 Athanasios Fotopoulos , Vasileios G. Karageorgopoulos , Vassilis S. Geroyannis

In recent work, we analyzed the dynamics of spherical and nonspherical acoustic perturbations of the Michel flow, describing the steady radial accretion of a relativistic perfect fluid into a nonrotating black hole. We showed that such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-20 Eliana Chaverra , Olivier Sarbach

Consistency relations involving the soft limit of the (n + 1)-correlator functions of dark matter and galaxy overdensities can be obtained, both in real and redshift space, thanks to the symmetries enjoyed by the Newtonian equations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexandros Kehagias , Jorge Noreña , Hideki Perrier , Antonio Riotto

Reliable predictions of general relativity theory are extracted using approximation methods. Among these, the powerful post-Newtonian approximation provides us with our best insights into the problems of motion and gravitational radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-12 Luc Blanchet

This paper reports results from numerical simulations of the gravitational radiation emitted from non--rotating compact objects(both neutron stars and Schwarzschild black holes) as a result of the accretion of matter. A hybrid procedure is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alessandro Nagar , Guillermo Diaz , Jose A. Pons , Jose A. Font

We present a novel analytic extraction of high-order post-Newtonian (pN) parameters that govern quasi-circular binary systems. Coefficients in the pN expansion of the energy of a binary system can be found from corresponding coefficients in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-26 Abhay G Shah , John L Friedman , Bernard F Whiting

The Schr\"odinger-Newton model describes self-gravitating quantum particles, and it is often cited to explain the gravitational collapse of the wave function and the localization of macroscopic objects. However, this model is completely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 David Brizuela , Albert Duran-Cabacés

From a Parametrized Post-Newtonian (PPN) [46-51] perspective, we address the question of whether or not the new degrees of freedom, represented by the PPN potentials, can lead to significant modifications in the dynamics of galaxies in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-17 Henrique Matheus Gauy , Javier Ramos-Caro

Recently, an exact spherically symmetric analytic accretion solution was presented having simple $\rho \propto R^{-3/2}$ and $V \propto R^{-1/2}$ scalings in Hernandez et al. (2023). In dimensionless variables that solution forms a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 X. Hernandez , L. Nasser , P. L. Rendon

We develop a "hybrid approximative scheme" in the framework of the post-Newtonian approximation for computing general-relativistic polytropic models simulating neutron stars in critical rigid rotation. We treat the differential equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Vassilis S. Geroyannis , Vasileios G. Karageorgopoulos

As a preliminary step towards simulating binary neutron star coalescing problem, we test a post-Newtonian approach by constructing a single neutron star model. We expand the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equation of hydrostatic equilibrium by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Hisa-aki Shinkai