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In a previous paper the complex-shift method has been applied to self-gravitating spherical systems, producing new analytical axisymmetric density-potential pairs. We now extend the treatement to the Miyamoto-Nagai disc and to the Binney…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Ciotti , F. Marinacci

We provide a higher dimensional extension of the gravitational decoupling method. This extended method allows to obtain new analytic and well behaved solutions that could be associated to higher dimensional stellar distributions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-25 Milko Estrada , Reginaldo Prado

We carried out global three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of galactic gaseous disks to investigate how the galactic magnetic fields are amplified and maintained. We adopt a steady axisymmetric gravitational potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hiromitsu Nishikori , Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto

We investigate the possibility of generating sizeable dipole radiations in relativistic theories of gravity. Optimal parameters to observe their effects through the orbital period decay of binary star systems are discussed. Constraints on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-08-14 J. -M. Gerard , Y. Wiaux

A set of bi-orthogonal potential-density basis functions is introduced to model the density and its associated gravitational field of three dimensional stellar systems. Radial components of our basis functions are weighted integral forms of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alireza Rahmati , Mir Abbas Jalali

We define gravitational mass and current multipoles for five-dimensional, stationary, and asymptotically flat vacuum metrics. We do this by generalizing Thorne's asymptotically Cartesian and mass-centered (ACMC) coordinate formalism to five…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Jef Heynen , Daniel R. Mayerson

We present accurate models of the gravitational potential produced by a radially exponential disk mass distribution. The models are produced by combining three separate Miyamoto-Nagai disks. Such models have been used previously to model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-10 Rory Smith , Chris Flynn , Graeme N. Candlish , Michael Fellhauer , Brad K. Gibson

Amplitude and phase of the gravitational waveform from compact binary systems can be decomposed in terms of their mass- and current-type multipole moments. In a modified theory of gravity, one or more of these multipole moments could…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-14 Parthapratim Mahapatra , Shilpa Kastha , Anuradha Gupta , B. S. Sathyaprakash , K. G. Arun

We derive the equations of motion of an extended test body in the context of Einstein's theory of gravitation. The equations of motion are obtained via a multipolar approximation method and are given up to the quadrupolar order. Special…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Jan Steinhoff , Dirk Puetzfeld

Cosmological models arising from a generalized compactification of Einstein gravity are derived. It is shown that a redefinition of the moduli fields reduces the system to a set of massless fields and a single field with a single…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anne M. Green , James E. Lidsey

The multipole expansion is a key tool in the study of light-matter interactions. All the information about the radiation of and coupling to electromagnetic fields of a given charge-density distribution is condensed into few numbers: The…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-08 R. Alaee , C. Rockstuhl , I. Fernandez-Corbaton

We analyze the applications of general relativity in relativistic astrophysics in order to solve the problem of describing the geometric and physical properties of the interior and exterior gravitational and electromagnetic fields of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-21 Hernando Quevedo

Various procedures for expressing the multipolar expansion of the electromagnetic field are considered with application to the calculation of the radiated power. Some results from literature are discussed and perspective of developing the…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Irina Dumitriu , C. Vrejoiu

Aims. Many recent observations of pulsars and magnetars can be interpreted in terms of neutron stars (NS) with multipole electromagnetic fields. As a first approximation, we investigate the multipole magnetic and electric fields in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-07 S. Bonazzola , F. Mottez , J. Heyvaerts

Magnetostatic fields in accelerators are conventionally described in terms of multipoles. We show that in two dimensions, multipole fields do provide solutions of Maxwell's equations, and we consider the distributions of electric currents…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 Andrzej Wolski

We study gravitational lensing by quadrupole potentials within the linearized gravity approximation and the integration over the unperturbed photon trajectory. It is well known that the quadrupole potential contribution to the deviation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Davor Palle

We advocate a simple multipole expansion of the polarisation density matrix. The resulting multipoles appear as successive moments of the Stokes variables and can be obtained from feasible measurements. In terms of these multipoles, we…

We investigate the gravitational radiation emitted by an isolated system for gravity theories with Lagrange density $f(R) = R + aR^2$. As a formal result we obtain leading order corrections to the quadrupole formula in General Relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-08 Joachim Näf , Philippe Jetzer

We calculate ab initio the gravitational potential energy per unit area for a gravitationally coupled multi-component galactic disk of stars and gas, which is given as the integration over vertical density distribution, vertical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Suchira Sarkar , Chanda J. Jog

We present a family of analytical potential-density pairs for barred discs, which can be combined to describe galactic bars in a realistic way, including boxy/peanut components. We illustrate this with two reasonable compound models.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Walter Dehnen , Hossam Aly