Anisotropic distribution functions for spherical galaxies

DOI10.1007/S10569-006-9062-5MaRDI QIDQ871309zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhenglu Jiang, Leonid Ossipkov

Publication date 16 March 2007

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4898

zbMATH Keywords

GalaxiesCelestial mechanicsStellar dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

Abstract: 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 momentum. It requires the density to be expressed as a sum of products of functions of the potential and of the radial coordinate. The solution corresponding to this type of density is in turn a sum of products of functions of the energy and of the magnitude of the angular momentum. The products of the density and its radial and transverse velocity dispersions can be also expressed as a sum of products of functions of the potential and of the radial coordinate. Several examples are given, including some of new anisotropic distribution functions. This device can be extended further to the related problem of finding two-integral distribution functions for axisymmetric galaxies.

Recommendations

• Simple distribution functions for stellar systems
• A completely analytical family of anisotropic Plummer models
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4162334
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4133565
• Dynamical models with a general anisotropy profile

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3690774 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5245628 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3243765 (Why is no real title available?)
• A completely analytical family of anisotropic Plummer models
• Dynamische Begründung der Geschwindigkeitsverteilung im Sternsystem
• Remarks on Some Theorems in the Dynamics of a Steady Stellar System
• Self-Gravitating Star Systems. II
• Stellar Dynamics: Exact Solution of the Self-Gravitation Equation

Cited in

(12)

• A completely analytical family of anisotropic Plummer models
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3958787 (Why is no real title available?)
• Dynamical models with a general anisotropy profile
• DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION OF DARK MATTER WITH CONSTANT ANISOTROPY
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4089251 (Why is no real title available?)
• Minimum variance estimation of statistical anisotropy via galaxy survey
• Optimal computation of anisotropic galaxy three point correlation function multipoles using 2DFFTLOG formalism
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4162334 (Why is no real title available?)
• A simple method to construct exact density-potential pairs from a homeoidal expansion
• Kinematic constraints between stellar systems in superposition
• Analysis of the spatial distribution of galaxies by multiscale methods
• A model for the corona of a spherical star cluster

This page was built for publication: Anisotropic distribution functions for spherical galaxies

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q871309)