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[Preamble by Joel E. Tohline — Circa 2020] In an effort to serve ongoing research activities of the astrophysics community, this media-wiki-based hypertext book (H_Book) reviews what is presently understood about the structure, stability, and dynamical evolution of (Newtonian) self-gravitating fluids. In the context of this review, the "dynamical evolution" categorization generally will refer to studies that begin with an equilibrium configuration that has been identified — via a stability analysis — as being dynamically (or, perhaps, secularly) unstable then, using numerical hydrodynamic technique, follow the development to nonlinear amplitude of deformations that spontaneously develop as a result of the identified instability.
As is reflected in our choice of the overarching set of Principle Governing Equations, our focus is on studies of compressible fluid systems — those that obey a barotropic equation of state. But, in addition, chapters are included that review what is known about the structure and stability of self-gravitating incompressible (uniform-density) fluid systems because: (a) in this special case, the set of governing relations is often amenable to a closed-form, analytic solution; and (b) most modern computationally assisted studies of compressible fluid systems — both in terms of their design and in the manner in which results have been interpreted — have been heavily influenced by these, more classical, studies of incompressible fluid systems.
As the layout of the following tiled menu reflects, this review is broken into three major topical areas based primarily on geometrical considerations:
- Studies of configurations that are — at least initially — spherically symmetric.
- Two-dimensional configurations — such as rotationally flattened spheroidal-like or toroidal-like structures; or infinitesimally thin, but nonaxisymmetric, disk-like structures.
- Configurations that require a full three-dimensional treatment — most notably, "spinning" ellipsoidal-like structures; or binary systems.
This is very much a living review. The chosen theme encompasses an enormous field of research that, because of its relevance to the astrophysics community, over time is continuing to expand at a healthy pace. As a consequence the review is incomplete now, and it will always be incomplete, so please bear with me. On any given day/week/month I will turn my attention to a topic that seems particularly interesting to me and I will begin writing a new chapter or I will edit/expand the contents of an existing tiled_menu chapter. This necessarily means that, in principle, all chapters are incomplete while, in practice, some are much more polished than others. Hopefully steady forward progress is being made and the review will indeed be viewed as providing a service to the community.
Context
Global Energy Considerations |
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Principal Governing Equations (PGEs) |
Continuity | Euler | 1st Law of Thermodynamics |
Poisson |
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Equation of State (EOS) |
Ideal Gas | Total Pressure |
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Spherically Symmetric Configurations
(Initially) Spherically Symmetric Configurations |
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Structural Form Factors |
Free-Energy of Spherical Systems |
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One-Dimensional PGEs |
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Equilibrium Structures
1D STRUCTURE |
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Scalar Virial Theorem |
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Hydrostatic Balance Equation |
Solution Strategies |
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Isothermal Sphere |
via Direct Numerical Integration |
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Isolated Polytropes |
Lane (1870) |
Known Analytic Solutions |
via Direct Numerical Integration |
via Self-Consistent Field (SCF) Technique |
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Zero-Temperature White Dwarf |
Chandrasekhar Limiting Mass (1935) |
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Virial Equilibrium of Pressure-Truncated Polytropes |
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Pressure-Truncated Configurations |
Bonnor-Ebert (Isothermal) Spheres (1955 - 56) |
Polytropes | Equilibrium Sequence Turning-Points ♥ |
Turning-Points (Broader Context) |
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Free Energy of Bipolytropes (nc, ne) = (5, 1) |
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Composite Polytropes (Bipolytropes) |
Schönberg- Chandrasekhar Mass (1942) |
Analytic (nc, ne) = (5, 1) |
Analytic (nc, ne) = (1, 5) |
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Stability Analysis
1D STABILITY |
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Variational Principle |
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Radial Pulsation Equation |
Example Derivations & Statement of Eigenvalue Problem |
(poor attempt at) Reconciliation |
Relationship to Sound Waves |
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Uniform-Density Configurations |
Sterne's Analytic Sol'n of Eigenvalue Problem (1937) |
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Pressure-Truncated Isothermal Spheres |
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via Direct Numerical Integration |
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Yabushita's Analytic Sol'n for Marginally Unstable Configurations (1974) |
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Polytropes |
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Isolated n = 3 Polytrope |
Pressure-Truncated n = 5 Configurations |
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Exact Demonstration of B-KB74 Conjecture |
Exact Demonstration of Variational Principle |
Pressure-Truncated n = 5 Polytropes |
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Our Analytic Sol'n for Marginally Unstable Configurations (2017) ♥ |
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BiPolytropes | Murphy & Fiedler (1985b) (nc, ne) = (1,5) |
Our Broader Analysis |
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Nonlinear Dynamical Evolution
1D DYNAMICS |
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Free-Fall Collapse |
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Collapse of Isothermal Spheres |
via Direct Numerical Integration |
Similarity Solution |
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Collapse of an Isolated n = 3 Polytrope |
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Two-Dimensional Configurations (Axisymmetric)
(Initially) Axisymmetric Configurations |
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Storyline |
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PGEs for Axisymmetric Systems |
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Axisymmetric Equilibrium Structures
2D STRUCTURE |
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Constructing Steady-State Axisymmetric Configurations |
Axisymmetric Instabilities to Avoid |
Simple Rotation Profiles |
Hachisu Self-Consistent-Field [HSCF] Technique |
Solving the Poisson Equation |
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Using Toroidal Coordinates to Determine the Gravitational Potential |
Attempt at Simplification ♥ |
Wong's Analytic Potential (1973) |
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Spheroidal & Spheroidal-Like
Uniform-Density (Maclaurin) Spheroids |
Maclaurin's Original Text & Analysis (1742) |
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Rotationally Flattened Isothermal Configurations |
Hayashi, Narita & Miyama's Analytic Sol'n (1982) |
Review of Stahler's (1983) Technique |
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Rotationally Flattened Polytropes |
Example Equilibria |
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Rotationally Flattened White Dwarfs |
Ostriker Bodenheimer & Lynden-Bell (1966) |
Example Equilibria |
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Toroidal & Toroidal-Like
Definition: anchor ring |
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Massless Polytropic Configurations |
Papaloizou-Pringle Tori (1984) |
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Self-Gravitating Incompressible Configurations |
Dyson (1893) |
Dyson-Wong Tori |
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Self-Gravitating Compressible Configurations |
Ostriker (1964) |
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Stability Analysis
2D STABILITY |
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Sheroidal & Spheroidal-Like
Linear Analysis of Bar-Mode Instability |
Bifurcation from Maclaurin Sequence |
Traditional Analyses |
Time-Dependent Simulations |
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- T. G. Cowling & R. A. Newing (1949), ApJ, 109, 149: The Oscillations of a Rotating Star
- M. J. Clement (1965), ApJ, 141, 210: The Radial and Non-Radial Oscillations of Slowly Rotating Gaseous Masses
- P. H. Roberts & K. Stewartson (1963), ApJ, 137, 777: On the Stability of a Maclaurin spheroid of small viscosity
- C. E. Rosenkilde (1967), ApJ, 148, 825: The tensor virial-theorem including viscous stress and the oscillations of a Maclaurin spheroid
- S. Chandrasekhar & N. R. Lebovitz (1968), ApJ, 152, 267: The Pulsations and the Dynamical Stability of Gaseous Masses in Uniform Rotation
- C. Hunter (1977), ApJ, 213, 497: On Secular Stability, Secular Instability, and Points of Bifurcation of Rotating Gaseous Masses
- J. N. Imamura, J. L. Friedman & R. H. Durisen (1985), ApJ, 294, 474: Secular stability limits for rotating polytropic stars
The equilibrium models are calculated using the polytrope version (Bodenheimer & Ostriker 1973) of the Ostriker and Mark (1968) self-consistent field (SCF) code … the equilibrium models rotate on cylinders and are completely specified by <math>~n</math>, the total angular momentum, and the specific angular momentum distribution <math>~j(m_\varpi)</math>. Here <math>~m_\varpi</math> is the mass contained within a cylinder of radius <math>~\varpi</math> centered on the rotation axis. The angular momentum distribution is prescribed in several ways: (1) imposing strict uniform rotation; (2) using the same <math>~j(m_\varpi)</math> as that of a uniformly rotating spherical polybrope of index <math>~n^'</math> (see Bodenheimer and Ostriker 1973); and (3) using <math>~j(m_\varpi) \propto m_\varpi</math>, which we refer to as <math>~n^' = L</math>, <math>~L</math> for "linear." |
- J. R. Ipser & L. Lindblom (1990), ApJ, 355, 226: The Oscillations of Rapidly Rotating Newtonian Stellar Models
- J. R. Ipser & L. Lindblom (1991), ApJ, 373, 213: The Oscillations of Rapidly Rotating Newtonian Stellar Models. II. Dissipative Effects
- J. N. Imamura, J. L. Friedman & R. H. Durisen (2000), ApJ, 528, 946: Nonaxisymmetric Dynamic Instabilities of Rotating Polytropes. II. Torques, Bars, and Mode Saturation with Applications to Protostars and Fizzlers
- G. P. Horedt (2019), ApJ, 877, 9: On the Instability of Polytropic Maclaurin and Roche ellipsoids
Toroidal & Toroidal-Like
Defining the Eigenvalue Problem |
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(Massless) Papaloizou-Pringle Tori |
Analytic Analysis by Blaes (1985) |
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Nonlinear Dynamical Evolution
2D DYNAMICS |
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Free-Fall Collapse of an Homogeneous Spheroid |
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Two-Dimensional Configurations (Nonaxisymmetric Disks)
Infinitesimally Thin, Nonaxisymmetric Disks |
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2D STRUCTURE |
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Constructing Infinitesimally Thin Nonaxisymmetric Disks |
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Three-Dimensional Configurations
(Initially) Three-Dimensional Configurations |
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Equilibrium Structures
3D STRUCTURE |
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"One interesting aspect of our models … is the pulsation characteristic of the final central triaxial figure … our interest in the pulsations stems from a general concern about the equilibrium structure of self-gravitating, triaxial objects. In the past, attempts to construct hydrostatic models of any equilibrium, triaxial structure having both a high <math>~T/|W|</math> value and a compressible equation of state have met with very limited success … they have been thwarted by a lack of understanding of how to represent complex internal motions in a physically realistic way… We suggest … that a natural attribute of [such] configurations may be pulsation and that, as a result, a search for simple circulation hydrostatic analogs of such systems may prove to a fruitless endeavor. |
— Drawn from §IVa of Williams & Tohline (1988), ApJ, 334, 449 |
Special numerical techniques must be developed "to build three-dimensional compressible equilibrium models with complicated flows." To date … "techniques have only been developed to build compressible equilibrium models of nonaxisymmetric configurations for a few systems with simplified rotational profiles, e.g., rigidly rotating systems (Hachisu & Eriguchi 1984; Hachisu 1986), irrotational systems (Uryū & Eriguchi 1998), and configurations that are stationary in the inertial frame (Uryū & Eriguchi 1996)." |
— Drawn from §1 of Ou (2006), ApJ, 639, 549 |
Ellipsoidal & Ellipsoidal-Like
Constructing Ellipsoidal & Ellipsoidal-Like Configurations |
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Jacobi Ellipsoids |
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- B. P. Kondrat'ev (1985), Astrophysics, 23, 654: Irrotational and zero angular momentum ellipsoids in the Dirichlet problem
- D. Lai, F. A. Rasio & S. L. Shapiro (1993), ApJS, 88, 205: Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium: Compressible models
Binary Systems
- S. Chandrasekhar (1933), MNRAS, 93, 539: The equilibrium of distorted polytropes. IV. the rotational and the tidal distortions as functions of the density distribution
- S. Chandrasekhar (1963), ApJ, 138, 1182: The Equilibrium and the Stability of the Roche Ellipsoids
Roche's problem is concerned with the equilibrium and the stability of rotating homogeneous masses which are, further, distorted by the constant tidal action of an attendant rigid spherical mass. |
Stability Analysis
3D STABILITY |
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Ellipsoidal & Ellipsoidal-Like
Binary Systems
- S. Chandrasekhar (1963), ApJ, 138, 1182: The Equilibrium and the Stability of the Roche Ellipsoids
- G. P. Horedt (2019), ApJ, 877, 9: On the Instability of Polytropic Maclaurin and Roche Ellipsoids
Nonlinear Evolution
3D DYNAMICS |
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Free-Energy Evolution from the Maclaurin to the Jacobi Sequence |
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Fission Hypothesis |
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Secular
- M. Fujimoto (1971), ApJ, 170, 143: Nonlinear Motions of Rotating Gaseous Ellipsoids
- W. H. Press & S. A. Teukolsky (1973), ApJ, 181, 513: On the Evolution of the Secularly Unstable, Viscous Maclaurin Spheroids
- S. L. Detweiler & L. Lindblom (1977), ApJ, 213, 193: On the evolution of the homogeneous ellipsoidal figures.
Dynamical
See Also
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