Classifying Orbits of Low and High Energy Stars in Axisymmetric Disk Galaxies
The ordered or chaotic character of orbits of stars moving in the meridional (R, z) plane of an analytic axisymmetric time-independent disk galaxy model with an additional spherically symmetric central nucleus is investigated. Our aim is to determine how the total energy influences the orbital struc...
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doaj-2f7b311cf4314902841b12b6309e69ec2021-09-06T19:40:11ZengDe GruyterOpen Astronomy2543-63762016-06-0125213915110.1515/astro-2017-0117astro-2017-0117Classifying Orbits of Low and High Energy Stars in Axisymmetric Disk GalaxiesZotos Euaggelos E.0Department of Physics, School of Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-541 24, Thessaloniki, GreeceThe ordered or chaotic character of orbits of stars moving in the meridional (R, z) plane of an analytic axisymmetric time-independent disk galaxy model with an additional spherically symmetric central nucleus is investigated. Our aim is to determine how the total energy influences the orbital structure of the galaxy. For this purpose we monitor how the percentage of chaotic orbits as well as the rates of orbits composing the main regular families evolve as a function of the value of the energy. In order to distinguish with certainty between chaotic and ordered motion we use the SALI method in extensive sets of initial conditions of orbits. Moreover, a spectral method is applied for identifying the various regular families and also for recognizing the secondary resonances that bifurcate from them. Our numerical computations suggest that for low energy levels the observed amount of chaos is high and the orbital content is rather poor, while for high energy levels, corresponding to global motion, regular motion dominates and many secondary higher resonances emerge. We also compared our results with previous related work.https://doi.org/10.1515/astro-2017-0117galaxies: kinematics and dynamicsgalaxies: structure, chaos |
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Classifying Orbits of Low and High Energy Stars in Axisymmetric Disk Galaxies |
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Classifying Orbits of Low and High Energy Stars in Axisymmetric Disk Galaxies |
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Classifying Orbits of Low and High Energy Stars in Axisymmetric Disk Galaxies |
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Classifying Orbits of Low and High Energy Stars in Axisymmetric Disk Galaxies |
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Classifying Orbits of Low and High Energy Stars in Axisymmetric Disk Galaxies |
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classifying orbits of low and high energy stars in axisymmetric disk galaxies |
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Open Astronomy |
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The ordered or chaotic character of orbits of stars moving in the meridional (R, z) plane of an analytic axisymmetric time-independent disk galaxy model with an additional spherically symmetric central nucleus is investigated. Our aim is to determine how the total energy influences the orbital structure of the galaxy. For this purpose we monitor how the percentage of chaotic orbits as well as the rates of orbits composing the main regular families evolve as a function of the value of the energy. In order to distinguish with certainty between chaotic and ordered motion we use the SALI method in extensive sets of initial conditions of orbits. Moreover, a spectral method is applied for identifying the various regular families and also for recognizing the secondary resonances that bifurcate from them. Our numerical computations suggest that for low energy levels the observed amount of chaos is high and the orbital content is rather poor, while for high energy levels, corresponding to global motion, regular motion dominates and many secondary higher resonances emerge. We also compared our results with previous related work. |
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galaxies: kinematics and dynamics galaxies: structure, chaos |
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