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Via evaluation of the Lyapunov exponent, we report the discovery of three prominent sets of phase space regimes of quasi-periodic orbits of charged particles trapped in a dipole magnetic field. Besides the low energy regime that has been…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-03 Yuxin Xie , Siming Liu

Stable periodic orbits in spiral galactic models that form families of precessing ellipses can create spiral density waves similar to those that are observed in real grand-design galaxies. We study the range in parameter space for which the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-01 M. Harsoula , K. Zouloumi , C. Efthymiopoulos , G. Contopoulos

A significant fraction of galaxies show warps in their discs, usually noticeable at its periphery. The exact origin of this phenomenon is not fully established, although multiple warp formation mechanisms are proposed. In this study, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-03 Ilia V. Chugunov , Vladimir P. Reshetnikov , Alexander A. Marchuk

We study gravitational instabilities in disks, with special attention to the most massive clumps that form because they are expected to be the progenitors of globular-type clusters. The maximum unstable mass is set by rotation and depends…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-11 Andres Escala , Richard B. Larson

We present the first local simulations of disc breaking/tearing in a warped accretion disc. Warps can arise due to a misalignment between the disc and the rotation axis of the central object, or a misalignment with the orbital plane of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Loren E Held , Gordon I. Ogilvie

In this paper, we investigate periodic orbits of test particles around a non-rotating Destounis-Suvorov-Kokkotas black hole and the resulting gravitational waves. Firstly, we examine the properties of circular orbits and find that circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Zhutong Hua , Zhen-Tao He , Jiageng Jiao , Jing-Qi Lai , Yu Tian

This paper is devoted to Radial Orbit Instability in the context of self-gravitating dynamical systems. We present this instability in the new frame of Dissipation-Induced Instability theory. This allows us to obtain a rather simple proof…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-01 Lionel Maréchal , Jérôme Perez

The dynamics of chaotic billiards is significantly influenced by coexisting regions of regular motion. Here we investigate the prevalence of a different fundamental structure, which is formed by marginally unstable periodic orbits and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-01-24 E. G. Altmann , T. Friedrich , A. E. Motter , H. Kantz , A. Richter

We propose a theory to explain the formation of both spirals and rings in barred galaxies using a common dynamical framework. It is based on the orbital motion driven by the unstable equilibrium points of the rotating bar potential. Thus,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 M. Romero-Gomez

The formation of galactic discs and the efficiency of star formation within them are issues central to our understanding of galaxy formation. We have developed a detailed and versatile model of disc formation which combines the strengths of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. J. Stringer , A. J. Benson

Stationary stellar systems with radially elongated orbits are subject to radial orbit instability -- an important phenomenon that structures galaxies. Antonov (1973) presented a formal proof of the instability for spherical systems in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 E. V. Polyachenko , I. G. Shukhman

Spherical models of collisionless but quasi-relaxed stellar systems have long been studied as a natural framework for the description of globular clusters. Here we consider the construction of self-consistent models under the same physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Bertin , A. L. Varri

When a galaxy forms, the disk may initially be tilted with respect to a flattened dark halo. The misalignment between the disk and the halo is a common explanation for galactic disk warps, since in this state, disks have precessing bending…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 John Dubinski , Konrad Kuijken

Spiral waves in active media react to small perturbations as particle-like objects. Here we apply the asymptotic theory to the interaction of spiral waves with a localized inhomogeneity, which leads to a novel prediction: drift of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-01-25 V. N. Biktashev , D. Barkley , I. V. Biktasheva

We prove that either there exists at least one hamilton periodic orbit in a given energy close smooth hypersurface or there exist at least two hamilton periodic orbits in a near-by energy close smooth hypersurface. More general results also…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Renyi Ma

Most fully developed galaxies have a vivid spiral structure, but the formation and evolution of the spiral structure are still an enigma in astrophysics. In this paper, according to the standard Newtonian gravitational theory and some…

General Physics · Physics 2009-05-16 Ying-Qiu Gu

The transit time of mean-median orbits ---the time it takes for an orbit to become stationary--- has been conjectured to be finite but unbounded over the rationals. Through a study of some near-regular structures in these orbits, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Jonathan Hoseana , Franco Vivaldi

For a fixed k in (-2,2), the discretized rotation on Z^2 is defined by (x,y)->(y,-[x+ky]). We prove that this dynamics has infinitely many periodic orbits.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Shigeki Akiyama , Attila Pethoe

The collective dynamics of objects moving through a viscous fluid is complex and counterintuitive. A key to understanding the role of nontrivial particle shape in this complexity is the interaction of a pair of sedimenting spheroids. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-12 Rahul Chajwa , Narayanan Menon , Sriram Ramaswamy

The normal mode theory for warping of galaxy disks, in which disks are assumed to be tilted with respect to the equator of a massive, flattened dark halo, assumes a rigid, fixed halo. However, consideration of the back-reaction by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Konrad Kuijken