Cusps without chaos
摘要
We present cuspy, non-axisymmetric, scale-free mass models of discs, whose gravitational potentials are of St\"ackel form in parabolic coordinates. A black hole may be added at the centre, without in any way affecting the St\"ackel form; the dynamics in these potentials is, of course, fully integrable. The surface density, , where corresponds to steep cusps for which the central force diverges. Thus cusps, black holes, and non-axisymmetry are not a sure recipe for chaos, as is generally assumed. A new family of orbits, lens orbits, emerges to replace the box orbits of models of elliptical galaxies that have constant-density cores. Loop orbits are conspicuous by their absence. Both lenses and boxlets (the other family of orbits), can be elongated in the direction of the density distribution, a property that is favourable for the construction of non-axisymmetric, self-consistent equilibrium models of elliptical galaxies.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9612067,
title = {Cusps without chaos},
author = {S. Sridhar and J. Touma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9612067},
year = {2016}
}
备注
4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS