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Toroidal structures are a common feature in a wide variety of astrophysical objects, including dusty tori in AGNs, rings in galaxies, protoplanetary disks, and others. The matter distribution in such structures is not homogeneous and can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-22 Elena Bannikova , Serhii Skolota , Massimo Capaccioli

The integral expression for gravitational potential of a homogeneous circular torus composed of infinitely thin rings is obtained. Approximate expressions for torus potential in the outer and inner regions are found. In the outer region a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Elena Yu. Bannikova , Victor G. Vakulik , Valery M. Shulga

New exact solutions are derived for the gravitational potential inside and outside a homogeneous torus as rapidly converging series of toroidal harmonics. The approach consists of splitting the inter- nal potential into a known solution to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Matt Majic

It is shown that the gravitational potential outside an inhomogeneous ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid) whose isodensity surfaces are confocal spheroids is identical to the gravitational potential of a homogeneous spheroid of the same…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Gvaramadze , J. G. Lominadze

The problem of mutual gravitational energy $W_{mut}$ for a system of two homogeneous prolate spheroids, whose symmetry axes are on the same line, is set and solved. The method of equigravitating elements is applied, where the external…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-27 B. P. Kondratyev , V. S. Kornoukhov , E. N. Kireeva

We have investigated the toroidal analog of ellipsoidal shells of matter, which are of great significance in Astrophysics. The exact formula for the gravitational potential $\Psi(R,Z)$ of a shell with a circular section at the pole of…

Ring galaxies are amazing objects exemplified by the famous case of the Hoag's Object. Here the mass of the central galaxy may be comparable to the mass of the ring, making it a difficult case to model mechanically. In a previous paper, it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-08 Elena Yu. Bannikova

We have established the exact expression for the gravitational potential of a homogeneous polar cell - an elementary pattern used in hydrodynamical simulations of gravitating discs. This formula, which is a closed-form, works for any…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jean-Marc Huré

We study the properties of the Newtonian gravitational potential in a spherical Universe for different topologies. For this, we use the non-Euclidean Newtonian theory developed in Vigneron [2022, Class. & Quantum Gravity, 39, 155006]…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-04 Quentin Vigneron , Boudewijn F. Roukema

The gravitational potential is a key function involved in many astrophysical problems. Its evaluation inside continuous media from Newton's law is known to be challenging because of the diverging kernel 1/|r-r'|. This difficulty is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jean-Marc Huré

We present several closed-form expressions of useful mass distributions. These include the potentials and accelerations of circular rings and arcs, the potentials of uniform density rings and arcs at arbitrary eccentricities, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Zachary Murray

Gravitational potential and gravitational energy are presented in analytical form for homogeneous rectangular parallelepiped.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zakir F. Seidov , P. I. Skvirsky

I developed an efficient numerical method for obtaining the gravitational potential of razor-thin spiral perturbations and used it to assess the standard tight-winding approximation, which is found to be reasonably accurate for pitch angles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-22 Walter Dehnen

A closed-form expression is obtained for the density of a simple layer, equipotential to an oblate level ellipsoid of revolution in an outer space. The potential of any level spheroid of positive mass with the inward direction of attracting…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Danila V. Milanov

The gravitational properties of a torus are investigated. It is shown that a torus can be formed from test particles orbiting in the gravitational field of a central mass. In this case, a toroidal distribution is achieved because of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Elena Yu. Bannikova , Victor G. Vakulik , Alexey V. Sergeev

The gravitational field of a massive, filamentary ring is considered. We provide an analytic expression for the gravitational potential and demonstrate that the exact gravitational potential and its gradient, thus the gravitational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-22 Daniel Schumayer , David A. W. Hutchinson

In a preceeding paper alternative reflections on gravitation were developed. There it was assumed that the primary interaction between two masses is not of attractive but of repulsive nature. The repulsive force results from the impuls…

General Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Johann Albers

The image of a point situated at the center of a circularly symmetric potential is a perfect circle. The perturbative effect of non-symmetrical potential terms is to displace and break the perfect circle. These 2 effects, displacement and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Alard

The large scale gravitational potential distribution and its influence on the large-scale matter clustering is considered on the basis of six simulations. It is found that the mean separation between zero levels of the potential along…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Soeren Madsen , Andrei G. Doroshkevich , Stefan Gottloeber , Volker Müller

Laboratory experiments on gravitation are usually performed with objects of constant density, so that the analysis of the forces concerns only the geometry of their shape. In an ideal experiment, the shapes of the constituent parts will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 John W. Barrett
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