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The regular or chaotic character of orbits of stars moving in the meridional plane (R,z) of an axially symmetric elliptical galaxy with a dense, massive spherical nucleus and a dark matter halo component is under investigation. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos , Nicolaos D. Caranicolas , Efthimia G. Doni

Accretion onto black holes and compact stars brings material in a zone of strong gravitational and electromagnetic fields. We study dynamical properties of motion of electrically charged particles forming a highly diluted medium (a corona)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-12 Ondřej Kopáček , Vladimír Karas , Jiří Kovář , Zdeněk Stuchlík

This paper investigates spheroidal galaxies comprising a self-interacting dark matter halo (SIDM) plus de Vaucouleurs stellar distribution. These are coupled only via their shared gravitational field, which is computed consistently from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Curtis J. Saxton

We explore the regular or chaotic nature of orbits moving in the meridional plane of an axially symmetric galactic gravitational model with a disk, a dense spherical nucleus and some additional perturbing terms corresponding to influence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-11 Euaggelos E. Zotos

The study of how stars distribute themselves around a massive black hole (MBH) in the center of a galaxy is an important prerequisite for the understanding of many galactic-center processes. These include the observed overabundance of point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marc Freitag , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Vassiliki Kalogera

The distinction between chaotic and regular behavior of orbits in galactic models is an important issue and can help our understanding of galactic dynamical evolution. In this paper, we deal with this issue by applying the techniques of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 T. Manos , E. Athanassoula

We present results demonstrating the occurrence of changes in the collective dynamics of a Hamiltonian system which describes a confined microplasma characterized by long--range Coulomb interactions. In its lower energy regime, we first…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-20 Chris Antonopoulos , Vasileios Basios , Tassos Bountis

Correlations between intrinsic ellipticities of galaxies are a potentially important systematic error when constraining dark energy properties from weak gravitational lensing (cosmic shear) surveys. In the absence of perfectly known galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael D. Schneider , Sarah Bridle

We classify orbits of stars that are bound to central black holes in galactic nuclei. The stars move under the combined gravitational influences of the black hole and the central star cluster. Within the sphere of influence of the black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Sridhar , J. Touma

We use a simple dynamical model in order to investigate the regular or chaotic character of orbits in a barred galaxy with a central, spherically symmetric, dense nucleus and a flat disk. In particular, we explore how the total orbital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

We use N-body simulations to investigate the structure of dark halos in the standard Cold Dark Matter cosmogony. Halos are excised from simulations of cosmologically representative regions and are resimulated individually at high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julio F. Navarro , Carlos S. Frenk , Simon D. M. White

We study chaos dynamics of spinning particles in Kerr spacetime of rotating black holes use the Papapetrou equations by numerical integration. Because of spin, this system exists many chaos solutions, and exhibits some exceptional dynamic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Wen-Biao Han

We investigate the regular or chaotic nature of orbits of stars moving in the meridional plane (R,z) of an axially symmetric galactic model with a dense, massive spherical nucleus and a dark matter halo component. In particular, we study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-28 Nicolaos D. Caranicolas , Euaggelos E. Zotos

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

Wave dark matter ($\psi$DM) predicts a compact soliton core and a granular halo in every galaxy. This work presents the first simulation study of an elliptical galaxy by including both stars and $\psi$DM, focusing on the systematic changes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 James H. H. Chan , Hsi-Yu Schive , Tak-Pong Woo , Tzihong Chiueh

In galactic nuclei, the gravitational potential is dominated by the central supermassive black hole, so stars follow quasi-Keplerian orbits. These orbits are distorted by gravitational forces from other stars, leading to long-term orbital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Walter Dehnen , Scott Tremaine , Ben Bar-Or

In a previous paper based on dark matter only simulations we show that, in the approximation of an analytic and static potential describing the strongly triaxial and cuspy shape of Milky Way-sized haloes, diffusion due to chaotic mixing in…

We use a composite gravitational galactic model consisting of a disk, a halo, a massive nucleus and a strong nuclear bar, in order to study the connections between global and local parameters in a realistic dynamical system. The local model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-05-01 Euaggelos E. Zotos

The central regions of galaxies show the presence of massive black holes and/or dense stellar systems. The question about their modes of formation is still under debate. A likely explanation of the formation of the central dense stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-12 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , M. Arca-Sedda , M. Spera

This paper explores the dynamical interaction between extended halo and spheroid components of a disk galaxy and an environmental disturbance. One finds that resonant interaction between a galaxy and passing interlopers or satellite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin D. Weinberg