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A spherical system with arbitrary mean velocities in the radial and transverse directions, but with zero dispersion of radial velocities, is considered as a model describing the violent relaxation of star clusters and galaxies. The model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-22 V. Yu. Terebizh

Some formulae are presented for finding two-integral distribution functions (DFs) which depends only on the two classical integrals of the energy and the magnitude of the angular momentum with respect to the axis of symmetry for stellar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Zhenglu Jiang , Leonid Ossipkov

This paper uses the definition of complexity for a static spherically symmetric spacetime and extends it to the case of charged distribution. We formulate the Einstein-Maxwell field equations corresponding to the anisotropic interior and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 M. Sharif , Tayyab Naseer

We provide new exact solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell system of equations which are physically reasonable. The spacetime is static and spherically symmetric with a charged matter distribution. We utilise an equation of state which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 S. D. Maharaj , P. Mafa Takisa

Using three-dimensional stellar kinematic data from simulated galaxies, we examine the efficacy of a Jeans equation analysis in reconstructing the total disk surface density, including the dark matter, at the "Solar" radius. Our simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-18 G. N. Candlish , R. Smith , C. Moni Bidin , B. K. Gibson

We present a significantly improved version of our numerical code JASMINE, that can now solve the Jeans equations for axisymmetric models of stellar systems, composed of an arbitrary number of stellar populations, a Dark Matter halo, and a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Caterina Caravita , Luca Ciotti , Silvia Pellegrini

Context. Dynamically self-consistent galactic models are necessary for analysing and interpreting star counts, stellar density distributions, and stellar kinematics in order to understand the formation and the evolution of our Galaxy. Aims.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Olivier Bienaymé , Jérome Leca , Annie C. Robin

Jeans instability is analysed in an expanding universe within the framework of BGK model of the Boltzmann equation and Poisson equations. The background is characterized by a comoving Maxwellian distribution function and a space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Gilberto M. Kremer

The reaction of collective oscillations excited in the interaction between aperiodically growing Jeans-type gravity perturbations and stars of a rapidly rotating disk of flat galaxies is considered. An equation is derived which describes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Evgeny Griv , Michael Gedalin , David Eichler , Chi Yuan

Understanding the formation of nonlinear structures in the universe and stellar systems is crucial. The nonlinear Jeans instability plays a key role in these formation processes. It has been a long-standing open problem in astrophysics for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Chao Liu

We study the gravitational instability of a general relativistic complex scalar field with a quartic self-interaction in an infinite homogeneous static background. This quantum relativistic Jeans problem provides a simplified framework to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-24 Abril Suárez , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

This is an addendum to the paper by Cappellari (2008, MNRAS, 390, 71), which presented a simple and efficient method to model the stellar kinematics of axisymmetric stellar systems. The technique reproduces well the integral-field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-30 Michele Cappellari

One widely used technique for the construction of equilibrium models of stellar disks is based on the Jeans equations and the moments of velocity distribution functions derived using these equations. Stellar disks constructed using this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Rodionov , N. Ya. Sotnikova

A method is presented for finding anisotropic distribution functions for stellar systems with known, spherically symmetric, densities, which depends only on the two classical integrals of the energy and the magnitude of the angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-31 Zhenglu Jiang , Leonid Ossipkov

The post-Newtonian Jeans equation for stationary self-gravitating systems is derived from the post-Newtonian Boltzmann equation in spherical coordinates. The Jeans equation is coupled with the three Poisson equations from the post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-15 Gilberto M. Kremer

We study systematically stationary solutions to the coupled Vlasov and Poisson equations which have `self-similar' or scaling symmetry in phase space. In particular, we find analytically {\it all} spherically symmetric distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. N. Henriksen , Lawrence M. Widrow

Dynamics and collapse of collisionless self-gravitating systems is described by the coupled collisionless Boltzmann and Poisson equations derived from $f(R)$-gravity in the weak field approximation. Specifically, we describe a system at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Capozziello , M. De Laurentis , I. De Martino , M. Formisano , S. D. Odintsov

We present a simple and efficient anisotropic generalization of the semi-isotropic (two-integral) axisymmetric Jeans formalism which is used to model the stellar kinematics of galaxies. The following is assumed: (i) a constant mass-to-light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-06 Michele Cappellari

We have set ourselves the task of obtaining the probability distribution function of the mass density of a self-gravitating isothermal compressible turbulent fluid from its physics. We have done this in the context of a new notion: the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 Sava Donkov , Ivan Stefanov

Dynamical properties of spherically symmetric galaxy models where both the stellar and total mass density distributions are described by the Jaffe (1983) profile (with different scale-lenghts and masses), are presented. The orbital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 L. Ciotti , A. Ziaee Lorzad