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We evaluate the Brownian motion of a massive particle ("black hole") at the center of a galaxy using N-body simulations. Our galaxy models have power-law central density cusps like those observed at the centers of elliptical galaxies. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Merritt , Peter Berczik , Frederik Laun

Evidence for the majority of the supermassive black holes in the local universe has been obtained dynamically from stellar motions with the Schwarzschild orbit superposition method. However, there have been only a handful of studies using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-14 Jacob Pilawa , Emily R. Liepold , Chung-Pei Ma

A supermassive black hole has been found at the centre of nearly every galaxy observed with sufficient sensitivity. The masses of these black holes are observed to increase with either the total mass or the mean (random) velocity of the…

Recent results on chaos in triaxial galaxy models are reviewed. Central mass concentrations like those observed in early-type galaxies -- either stellar cusps, or massive black holes -- render most of the box orbits in a triaxial potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 David Merritt

We construct new models of black hole-neutron star binaries in quasiequilibrium circular orbits by solving Einstein's constraint equations in the conformal thin-sandwich decomposition together with the relativistic equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Keisuke Taniguchi , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Joshua A. Faber , Stuart L. Shapiro

A mass correlation of central black holes and their spheroids ~0.002(within a factor of three) is suggested by Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and various ground-based CCD photometries of early type galaxies. The near-IR images of quasar hosts…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. P. Wang , P. L. Biermann , A. Wandel

We construct exact black hole solutions free of curvature singularities, sourced by dark matter halos described by galactic density profiles. Regularity of the geometry is ensured by adopting the relation $P_{r}=-\rho$ between radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

The intrinsic shape and orientation of the elliptical galaxy NGC 3379 are estimated by dynamical modeling. The maximal ignorance shape estimate, an average over the parameter space, is axisymmetric and oblate in the inner parts, with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. S. Statler

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

We calculate the radial profiles of galaxies where the nuclear region is self-gravitating, consisting of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) with $F$ degrees of freedom. For sufficiently high density this dark matter becomes collisional,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Curtis J. Saxton , Ziri Younsi , Kinwah Wu

In large spheroidal stellar systems, such as elliptical galaxies, one invariably finds a 10^6-10^9 M_Sun supermassive black hole at their centre. In contrast, within dwarf elliptical galaxies one predominantly observes a 10^5-10^7 M_Sun…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alister W. Graham , Lee Spitler

We consider warped equilibrium configurations for stellar and gaseous disks in the Keplerian force-field of a supermassive black hole, assuming that the self-gravity of the disk provides the only acting torques. Modeling the disk as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Ulubay-Siddiki , O. Gerhard , M. Arnaboldi

We perform a stability test of triaxial models in MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) using N-body simulations. The triaxial models considered here have densities that vary with $r^{-1}$ in the center and $r^{-4}$ at large radii. The total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Xufen Wu , HongSheng Zhao , Yougang Wang , Claudio Llinares , Alexander Knebe

Based on the formulated and proven similarity properties of cosmological models based on a statistical system of degenerate scalarly charged fermions, as well as the previously identified mechanism of scalar-gravitational instability of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-04 Yu. G. Ignat'ev

We have constructed realistic, self-consistent models of triaxial elliptical galaxies embedded in triaxial dark matter halos. Self-consistent solutions by means of the standard orbital superposition technique introduced by Schwarzschild…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-05 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , L. Leccese , D. Merritt , A. Vicari

This paper summarises an investigation of chaos in a toy potential which mimics much of the behaviour observed for the more realistic triaxial generalisations of the Dehnen potentials, which have been used to model cuspy triaxial galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henry E. Kandrup , Ioannis V. Sideris

We use Schwarzschild's orbit superposition method to build self-consistent models of elliptical galaxies with scale-free potentials. Our exhaustive study of all physical shapes and central densities for galaxies with scale-free potentials…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Balsa Terzic

We use the usual method of Schwarzschild to construct self-consistent solutions for the triaxial de Zeeuw & Carollo (1996) models with central density cusps. ZC96 models are triaxial generalisations of spherical $\gamma$-models of Dehnen…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Parijat Thakur , Ing-Guey Jiang , Mousumi Das , D. K. Chakraborty , H. B. Ann

Quasi-equilibrium models of rapidly rotating triaxially deformed stars are computed in general relativistic gravity, assuming a conformally flat spatial geometry (Isenberg-Wilson-Mathews formulation) and a polytropic equation of state.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-08 Xing Huang , Charalampos Markakis , Noriyuki Sugiyama , Koji Uryu

Nuclear star clusters, which fragment into metal-poor stars in situ at the centers of protogalaxies, provide ideal environments for the formation of intermediate-mass black holes with masses $10^3-10^6M_\odot$. We utilize the semianalytic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-17 Konstantinos Kritos , Emanuele Berti , Joseph Silk