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Models for Anisotropic Spherical Stellar Systems with a Central Point Mass and Keplerian Falloff Velocity Dispersions
Author(s) -
Mordehai Milgrom
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
the astrophysical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376
H-Index - 489
eISSN - 1538-4357
pISSN - 0004-637X
DOI - 10.1086/303617
Subject(s) - velocity dispersion , physics , radius , anisotropy , dispersion (optics) , mass ratio , black hole (networking) , constant (computer programming) , variable (mathematics) , point (geometry) , square root , classical mechanics , mathematical analysis , astrophysics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , computer network , routing protocol , routing (electronic design automation) , computer security , galaxy , computer science , link state routing protocol , programming language
We add to the lore of spherical, stellar-system models a two-parameter familywith an anisotropic velocity dispersion, and a central point mass (``blackhole''). The ratio of the tangential to radial dispersions, is constant--andconstitutes the first parameter--while each decreases with radius as r^{-1/2}.The second parameter is the ratio of the central point mass to the total mass.The Jeans equation is solved to give the density law in closed form: rho\propto(r/r0)^{-c}/[1+(r/r0)^{3-c}]^2, where r0 is an arbitrary scale factor. The twoparameters enter the density law only through their combination c. At thesuggestion of Tremaine, we also explore models with only the root-sum-square ofthe velocities having a Keplerian run, but with a variable anisotropy ratio.This gives rise to a more versatile class of models, with analytic expressionsfor the density law and the dispersion runs, which contain more than oneradius-scale parameter.Comment: 10 pages. Final version to appear in ApJ; minor addition

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