3-DIMENSIONAL, AXISYMMETRICAL CUSPS WITHOUT CHAOS

Authors
Citation
S. Sridhar et J. Touma, 3-DIMENSIONAL, AXISYMMETRICAL CUSPS WITHOUT CHAOS, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 292(3), 1997, pp. 657-661
Citations number
16
ISSN journal
00358711
Volume
292
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
657 - 661
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-8711(1997)292:3<657:3ACWC>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We construct three-dimensional axisymmetric, cuspy density distributio ns, whose potentials are of Stackel form in parabolic coordinates. As in a recent paper by Sridhar BL Touma, a black hole of arbitrary mass may be added at the centre, without destroying the Stackel form of the potentials. The construction uses a classic method, originally owing to Kuzmin, which is extended to parabolic coordinates here. The models are highly oblate, and the cusps are 'weak', with the density, rho pr oportional to 1/r(k), where 0<k<1.