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We show that diffusion due to chaotic mixing in the Neighbourhood of the Sun may not be as relevant as previously suggested in erasing phase space signatures of past Galactic accretion events. For this purpose, we analyse Solar…

Supermassive black holes have been discovered at the centers of galaxies, and also in globular clusters. The data shows correlations between the black hole mass and the elliptical galaxy mass or globular cluster mass. It is shown that this…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Reginald T. Cahill

Recently we estimated that about 5 percent of supermassive black hole triple systems are fundamentally unpredictable. These gargantuan chaotic systems are able to exponentially magnify Planck length perturbations to astronomical scales…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Tjarda C. N. Boekholt , Simon F. Portegies Zwart

We consider the cosmological model in which a part of the Universe \Omega_h\sim 10^-5 is in the form of primordial black holes with mass \sim 10^5M_\odot. These primordial black holes would be centers for growing protogalaxies which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

Observations reveal that mature spiral galaxies consist of stars, gases and plasma approximately distributed in a thin disk of circular shape, usually with a central bulge. The rotation velocities quickly increase from the galactic center…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-22 C. F. Gallo , James Q. Feng

We investigated dynamics of the test particle in the gravitational field of the charged black hole with dipoles in this paper. At first we have studied the gravitational potential, by the numerical simulations, we found, for appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Chen Ju-hua , Wang Yongjiu

Cuspy triaxial potentials admit a large number of chaotic orbits, which moreover exhibit extreme "stickiness" that makes the process of chaotic mixing surprisingly inefficient. Environmental effects, modeled as noise and/or periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christos Siopis , Henry E. Kandrup

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

Galactic bulges are known to harbour central black holes whose mass is tightly correlated with the stellar mass and velocity dispersion of the bulge. In a hierarchical universe, mergers of subgalactic units are accompanied by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. I. Libeskind , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , J. C. Helly

In this article, we present a galactic gravitational model of three degrees of freedom (3D), in order to study and reveal the character of the orbits of the stars, in a binary stellar system composed of a primary quiet or active galaxy and…

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

We demonstrate that the nuclei of galaxies containing supermassive black holes can be triaxial in shape. Schwarzschild's method was first used to construct self-consistent orbital superpositions representing nuclei with axis ratios of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Y. Poon , David Merritt

The gas component plays a major role in the dynamics of spiral galaxies, because of its dissipative character, and its ability to exchange angular momentum with stars in the disk. Due to its small velocity dispersion, it triggers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Combes

We have investigated the motion of timelike particles along geodesic in the background of accelerating and rotating black hole spacetime. We confirmed that the chaos exists in the geodesic motion of the particles by Poincar\'e sections, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-12 Songbai Chen , Mingzhi Wang , Jiliang Jing

Geodesic dynamics is regular in the fields of isolated stationary black holes. However, due to the presence of unstable periodic orbits, it easily becomes chaotic under various perturbations. Here we examine what amount of chaoticity is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-20 O. Semerák , P. Suková

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

It is shown how the violation of the invariance of the $Z$-component of the orbital angular momentum $L_z$ in the axially symmetric potential of the Galaxy with a bar can serve as an indicator of the degree of orbital chaos of globular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-17 A. T. ~Bajkova , A. A. ~Smirnov , V. V. ~Bobylev

Observational arguments suggest that the growth phases of the supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei have a characteristic timescale $\sim 10^5$ yr. We show that this is the timescale expected in the chaotic accretion picture of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-26 Andrew King , Chris Nixon

Celestial bodies approximated with rigid triaxial ellipsoids in a two-body system can rotate chaotically due to the time-varying gravitational torque from the central mass. At small orbital eccentricity values, rotation is short-term…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Valeri V. Makarov , Alexey Goldin , Alexei V. Tkachenko , Dimitri Veras , Benoît Noyelles

This paper investigates chaos and chaotic phase mixing in triaxial Dehnen potentials which have been proposed to describe realistic ellipticals. Earlier work is extended by exploring the effects of (1) variable axis ratios, (2) `graininess'…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Henry E. Kandrup , Christos Siopis

Some of the mass that feeds the growth of a massive black hole (BH) in a galactic center is supplied by tidal disruption of stars that approach it on unbound, low angular momentum orbits. For each star that is disrupted, others narrowly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tal Alexander , Mario Livio