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Truncated $\gamma$-exponential models for tidal stellar systems

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2016-07-14 v1 Statistical Mechanics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We introduce a parametric family of models to characterize the properties of astrophysical systems in a quasi-stationary evolution under the incidence evaporation. We start from an one-particle distribution fγ(q,pβ,εs)f_{\gamma}\left(\mathbf{q},\mathbf{p}|\beta,\varepsilon_{s}\right) that considers an appropriate deformation of Maxwell-Boltzmann form with inverse temperature β\beta, in particular, a power-law truncation at the scape energy εs\varepsilon_{s} with exponent γ>0\gamma>0. This deformation is implemented using a generalized γ\gamma-exponential function obtained from the \emph{fractional integration} of ordinary exponential. As shown in this work, this proposal generalizes models of tidal stellar systems that predict particles distributions with \emph{isothermal cores and polytropic haloes}, e.g.: Michie-King models. We perform the analysis of thermodynamic features of these models and their associated distribution profiles. A nontrivial consequence of this study is that profiles with isothermal cores and polytropic haloes are only obtained for low energies whenever deformation parameter γ<γc2.13\gamma<\gamma_{c}\simeq 2.13.

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@article{arxiv.1607.03774,
  title  = {Truncated $\gamma$-exponential models for tidal stellar systems},
  author = {Y. J. Gomez-Leyton and L. Velazquez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.03774},
  year   = {2016}
}
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