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In this paper we explore several structural and dynamical effects on the projected velocity dispersion as possible causes of the fundamental plane (FP) tilt of elliptical galaxies. Specifically, we determine the size of the systematic trend…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. Ciotti , B. Lanzoni , A. Renzini

The modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), suggested by Milgrom as an alternative to dark matter, implies that isothermal spheres with a fixed anisotropy parameter should exhibit a near perfect relation between the mass and the fourth power of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. H. Sanders

In the solution of the Jeans equations for axisymmetric galaxy models the ``$b$-ansatz" is often adopted to prescribe the relation between the vertical and radial components of the velocity dispersion tensor, and close the equations.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 Leonardo De Deo , Luca Ciotti , Silvia Pellegrini

In this paper, we have introduced new viable solutions of Einstein-Maxwell field equations by incorporating the features of anisotropic matter distribution in the realm of General theory of Relativity ($GR$). For this procurement, we have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 H. Nazar , M. Azam , G. Abbas , R. Ahmed , R. Naeem

We study a new class of equilibrium two-parametric distribution functions of spherical stellar systems with radially anisotropic velocity distribution of stars. The models are less singular counterparts of the so called generalized…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 E. V. Polyachenko , V. L. Polyachenko , I. G. Shukhman

We study velocity moments of elliptical galaxies in the Coma cluster using Jeans equations. The dark matter distribution in the cluster is modelled by a generalised formula based upon the results of cosmological N-body simulations. Its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Ewa L. Lokas , Gary A. Mamon

We derive upper and lower limits for the basic physical parameters (mass-radius ratio, anisotropy, redshift and total energy) for arbitrary anisotropic general relativistic matter distributions in the presence of a cosmological constant.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. G. Boehmer , T. Harko

We investigate potential systematic biases introduced by assumptions regarding stellar orbital anisotropy in joint lensing-dynamics modeling. Our study employs the massive early-type galaxies from the TNG100 simulation at redshifts z = 0.2,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-18 Yan Liang , Dandan Xu , Anowar J. Shajib , Yiping Shu , Ran Li

A model of compact object coupled to inhomogeneous anisotropic dark energy is studied. It is assumed a variable dark energy that suffers a phase transition at a critical density. The anisotropic Lambda-Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Cristian R. Ghezzi

We use oblate axisymmetric dynamical models including dark halos to determine the orbital structure of intermediate mass to massive Coma early-type galaxies. We find a large variety of orbital compositions. Averaged over all sample galaxies…

General criteria to check the positivity of the distribution function (phase-space consistency) of stellar systems of assigned density and anisotropy profile are useful starting points in Jeans-based modeling. Here we substantially extend…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Luca Ciotti , Lucia Morganti

In this paper are discussed possible many body generalizations of the expanding locally anisotropic metric ansatz with respect to approximately Newtonian gravitational systems. This ansatz consistently describes local point-like matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-16 P. Castelo Ferreira

We present the first study of the isotropy of the distribution of morphological types of galaxies in the Local Universe out to around 200 Mpc using more than 60,000 galaxies from the HyperLeda database. We divide the sky into two opposite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Behnam Javanmardi , Pavel Kroupa

This paper provides two families of flexible and simple galaxy models. Representatives of many of the families possess the important cosmological cusps, with the density behaving like 1/r or 1/r^1.33 or 1/r^1.5 at small radii. The density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. an , N. W. Evans

Following earlier authors, we re-examine constraints on the radial velocity anisotropy of generic stellar systems using arguments for phase space density positivity, stability, and separability. It is known that although the majority of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Jeremy A. Barber , Hongsheng Zhao

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

We present density profiles, that are solutions of the spherical Jeans equation, derived under the following two assumptions: (i) the coarse grained phase-density follows a power-law of radius, rho/(sigma^3) proportional to r^{-alpha}, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicolaos Hiotelis

We discuss the problem of using stellar kinematics of early-type galaxies to constrain the galaxies' orbital anisotropies and radial mass profiles. We demonstrate that compressing a galaxy's light distribution along the line of sight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John Magorrian , David Ballantyne

Elliptical galaxies are modelled as Sersic luminosity distributions with density profiles (DPs) for the total mass adopted from the DPs of haloes within dissipationless LambdaCDM N-body simulations. Ellipticals turn out to be inconsistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-15 Gary A. Mamon , Ewa L. Lokas

Dark Matter (DM) direct detection experiments usually assume the simplest possible 'Standard Halo Model' for the Milky Way (MW) halo in which the velocity distribution is Maxwellian. This model assumes that the MW halo is an isotropic,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-02 Mattia Fornasa , Anne M. Green