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Large-scale structures, observed today, are generally believed to have grown from random, small-amplitude inhomogeneities, present in the early Universe. We investigate how gravitational instability drives the distribution of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 R. Juszkiewicz , F. R. Bouchet , S. Colombi

Alterations of the gravity Lagrangian introduced in modified torsion gravity theories---also referred to as $f(T)$ gravity---allows for an accelerated expansion in a matter dominated Universe. In this framework, the cosmic speed up is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Stefano Camera , Vincenzo F. Cardone , Ninfa Radicella

We explore various instability models for the onset of star formation in irregular galaxies. Critical gas densities are calculated for gravitational instabilities with a thin, pure-gas disk, and with a thick disk composed of gas and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Deidre A. Hunter , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Aomawa L. Baker

A metric-field approach to gravitation is presented. It is based on an idea of dependency of space-time properties on measuring instruments. Some bimetric equations that realize this idea are considered. They were tested by the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 L. V. Verozub

We examine the predictions of the core accretion - gas capture model concerning the efficiency of planet formation around stars with various masses. First, we follow the evolution of gas and solids from the moment when all solids are in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kacper Kornet , Sebastian Wolf , Michal Rozyczka

Correlations between stellar chemistry and kinematics have long been used to gain insight into the evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy. Orbital angular momentum is a key physical parameter and it is often estimated from three-dimensional…

We develop an analytical model for the accretion and gravitational drag on a point mass that moves hypersonically in the midplane of a gaseous disk with a Gaussian vertical density stratification. Such a model is of interest for studying…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Cantó , A. Esquivel. F. J. Sánchez-Salcedo , A. C. Raga

We present a new method of analysing and quantifying velocity structure in star forming regions suitable for the rapidly increasing quantity and quality of stellar position-velocity data. The method can be applied to data in any number of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Becky Arnold , Simon Goodwin

Modelling gravity is a fundamental problem that must be tackled in N-body simulations of stellar systems, and satisfactory solutions require a deep understanding of the dynamical effects of softening. In a previous paper (Romeo 1997), we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro B. Romeo

Matter evolved under influence of gravity from minuscule density fluctuations. Non-perturbative structure formed hierarchically over all scales, and developed non-Gaussian features in the Universe, known as the Cosmic Web. To fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-01 Siyu He , Yin Li , Yu Feng , Shirley Ho , Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Wei Chen , Barnabás Póczos

Gravitational collapse of molecular cloud or cloud core/clump may lead to the formation of geometrically flattened, rotating accretion flow surrounding the new born star or star cluster. Gravitational instability may occur in such accretion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Hauyu Baobab Liu

The advection of thermonuclear ashes by magnetized domains emerging from near the H-shell was suggested to explain AGB star abundances. Here we verify this idea quantitatively through exact MHD models. Starting with a simple 2D geometry and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. C. Nucci , M. Busso

We characterize stellar, gas, and dark matter mass distributions for 17 nearby massive disk galaxies from the PHANGS sample. This allows us to compute the gravitational potential that vertically confines the interstellar gas and determines…

When it comes to searches for extensions to general relativity, large efforts are being dedicated to accurate predictions for the power spectrum of density perturbations. While this observable is known to be sensitive to the gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Claudio Llinares , Nuala McCullagh

Understanding the contribution of geophysical variables is vital for identifying the ore indicator regions. Both magnetometry and gamma-rays are used to identify the geophysical signatures of the rocks. Density is another key variable for…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 M. Balamurali , A. Melkumyan , J. Zigman

To develop galaxy-targeting approaches, the gravitational-wave community built a catalog of stellar mass in the local universe based on the 2MASS spectroscopic and photometric redshift surveys. By cleaning and supplementing this catalog,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 J. Biteau

Galaxies grow through star formation (in-situ) and accretion (ex-situ) of other galaxies. Reconstructing the relative contribution of these two growth channels is crucial for constraining the processes of galaxy formation in a cosmological…

Astronomers have been using the measured luminosity to estimate the {\em luminous mass} of stars, based on empirically established mass-to-light ratio which seems to be only applicable to a special class of stars---the main-sequence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-23 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

GRAVITY is the second generation VLT Interferometer (VLTI) instrument for high-precision narrow-angle astrometry and phase-referenced interferometric imaging. The laser metrology system of GRAVITY is at the heart of its astrometric mode,…

We show that the surface gravity of a transiting extrasolar planet can be calculated from only the spectroscopic orbit of its parent star and the analysis of its transit light curve. This does not require additional constraints, such as are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 John Southworth , Peter J. Wheatley , Giles Sams