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Using the method that was developed in the first paper of this series, we measure the vertical gravitational potential of the Galactic disk from the time-varying structure of the phase-space spiral, using data from Gaia as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-01 Axel Widmark , Chervin F. P. Laporte , Pablo F. de Salas , Giacomo Monari

Gravitational stability of a disc consisting of the gaseous and the stellar components are studied in the linear regime when the gaseous component is turbulent. A phenomenological approach is adopted to describe the turbulence, in which not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Mohsen Shadmehri , Fazeleh Khajenabi

We present a new systematic way of setting up galactic gas disks based on the assumption of detailed hydrodynamic equilibrium. To do this, we need to specify the density distribution and the velocity field which supports the disk. We first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Hsiang-Hsu Wang , Ralf S. Klessen , Cornelis P. Dullemond , Frank C. van den Bosch , Burkhard Fuchs

The first-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) that describes the mid-plane gravitational potential in flat finite size discs in which the surface density is a power-law function of the radius R with exponent s (Hur\'e & Hersant 2007)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -M. Huré , F. Hersant , C. Carreau , J. -P. Busset

We obtain an expression for the energy of the density wave propagating in a multicomponent gravitating medium in the form well known from electrodynamics. Using the above, the possibility of "triple production" of the quasi-particles, or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Kingsep , Yu. A. Fridman

To constrain the Galactic gravitational potential near the Sun ($\sim$1.5 kpc), we derive and model the spatial and velocity distribution for a sample of 9000 K-dwarfs that have spectra from SDSS/SEGUE, which yield radial velocities and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Lan Zhang , Hans-Walter Rix , Glenn van de Ven , Jo Bovy , Chao Liu , Gang Zhao

A problem of self-energy and self-force for a charged point-like particle in a higher dimensional homogeneous gravitational field is considered. We study two cases, when a particle has usual electric charge and a case when it has a scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Valeri P. Frolov , Andrei Zelnikov

It has been demonstrated, using variational methods, that quantum vacuum energy gravitates according to the equivalence principle, at least for the finite Casimir energies associated with perfectly conducting parallel plates. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kimball A Milton , Stephen A Fulling , Prachi Parashar , August Romeo , K V Shajesh , Jeffrey A Wagner

The distributions of normal matter and of dark matter in the Galaxy are coupled to each other as they both move in the common gravitational potential. In order to fully exploit this interplay and to derive the various properties of dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-16 Benjamin Burch , Ramanath Cowsik

We develop several aspects of the theory of gaseous astrophysical discs in which the gravity of the disc makes a significant contribution to its structure and dynamics. We show how the internal gravitational potential can be expanded in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Gordon I. Ogilvie

We revisit the problem of the isothermal slab (in standard Cartesian coordinates, density distributions and mean gravitational potential are considered to be independent of $x$ and $y$ and to be a function of $z$, symmetric with respect to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-06 Giuseppe Bertin , Francesco Pegoraro

In the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity the energy density of asymptotically flat gravitational fields can be naturaly defined as a scalar density restricted to a three-dimensional spacelike hypersurface $\Sigma$. Integration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 J. W. Maluf , E. F. Martins , A. Kneip

This article is devoted to the study of the dynamical behavior of a collisionless kinetic gas in d=1,2,3 space dimensions which is trapped in a rotationally symmetric potential well. Although at the microscopic level the trajectories of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-19 Paola Rioseco , Olivier Sarbach

We investigated the gravitational potential and mass distribution in the Galactic Center by examining the morphology and kinematics of the circumnuclear gaseous disk revealed by the molecular line data from the ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey…

This article deals with the thermodynamics of gravitational radiation arising from the Bondi-Sachs space-time. The equation of state found allows us to conclude that the dependence of the energy density on the temperature is a quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-10 S. C. Ulhoa , F. L. Carneiro , J. W. Maluf

We study the properties of gravitational system in finite regions bounded by gravitational screens. We present the detail construction of the total energy of such regions and of the energy and momentum balance equations due to the flow of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-22 Laurent Freidel

Observers at rest in a stationary spacetime flat at infinity can measure small amounts of rest-mass+internal energies+kinetic energies+pressure energy in a small volume of fluid attached to a local inertial frame. The sum of these small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Joseph Katz

Using Heisenberg's uncertainty principle it is shown that the gravitational stability condition for a crystalline vacuum cosmic space implies to obtain an equation formally equivalent to the relation first used by Gamow to predict the…

Part A of this article is devoted to the general investigation of the gravitational-wave emission by post-Newtonian sources. We show how the radiation field far from the source, as well as its near-zone inner gravitational field, can (in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Luc Blanchet

The gravitational potential and the gravitational rotation field generated by a thin-disk mass distribution with exponential density are considered in the case when the force between any two mass elements is not the usual Newtonian one, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Rodrigo-Blanco