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Self-Gravitating, Incompressible (Dyson-Wong) Tori

Much of the introductory material of this chapter has been drawn from the paper by Tohline & Hachisu (1990) titled, The Breakup of Self-Gravitating Rings, Tori, and Accretion Disks.

Whitworth's (1981) Isothermal Free-Energy Surface
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Overview

In his pioneering work, F. W. Dyson (1893, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. A., 184, 43 - 95) and (1893, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. A., 184, 1041 - 1106) used analytic techniques to determine the approximate equilibrium structure of axisymmetric, uniformly rotating, incompressible tori. C.-Y. Wong (1974, ApJ, 190, 675 - 694) extended Dyson's work, using numerical techniques to obtain more accurate — but still approximate — equilibrium structures for incompressible tori having solid body rotation. Since then, Y. Eriguchi & D. Sugimoto (1981, Progress of Theoretical Physics, 65, 1870 - 1875) and I. Hachisu, J. E. Tohline & Y. Eriguchi (1987, ApJ, 323, 592 - 613) have mapped out the full sequence of Dyson-Wong tori, beginning from a bifurcation point on the Maclaurin spheroid sequence.

Individual Works

Wong (1973, 1974)

In a paper titled, Toroidal Figures of Equilibrium, C.-Y. Wong (1974, ApJ, 190, 675 - 694) remarks that a "detailed analysis of toroidal figure of equilibrium has not received much attention since the last century. Previous work on this problem was carried out by":

Wong argues that a "reexamination of the toroidal figures of equilibrium is … necessary, because in all the previous analyses the physical quantities are expanded as a power series of the inverse of the aspect ratio. Such an expansion breaks down in the interesting region of small aspect ratios where one wishes to observe the transition between the Maclaurin sequence to the toroidal sequence. Furthermore, the classical solutions … can only treat small perturbations from a circular meridian …"

Principal Simplification: Following Poincaré, Dyson, and Kowalewsky, Wong confines his analysis to toroidal structures that have (a) uniform and incompressible mass distribution, and throughout which (b) the angular velocity is assumed to be independent of positions.

It is worth pointing out that Wong pursued this astrophysically relevant research problem at a time when, apparently, the principal focus of his work was nuclear physics. We suspect this is the case because, (a) his byline lists Oak Ridge National Laboratory as his employer; (b) in the acknowledgement section of his paper, Wong states that he "is indebted to Professor J. A. Wheeler who either consciously or unconsciously introduced the author to the subject matter with his toroidal geons and toroidal nuclei;" and Wong references and draws upon a paper that he published one year earlier — specifically, C.-Y. Wong (1973, Annals of Physics, 77, 279 - 353) — titled, Toroidal and Spherical Bubble Nuclei.

Introducing Toroidal Coordinates

Figure extracted without modification from C.-Y. Wong (1973)

 "Toroidal and Spherical Bubble Nuclei'"

Annals of Physics, vol. 77, pp. 279 - 353 © Elsevier Science

Wong (1973, Annals of Physics, 77, p. 284)

C.-Y. Wong (1973) introduces the toroidal coordinate system <math>~(\eta, \theta, \psi)</math> as follows (direct quotes from the article are displayed here in a dark green font). Referencing the figure — shown here on the right — that has been extracted without modification from the article, the surfaces of constant <math>~\eta</math> are generated by rotating a circle about the axis of symmetry, the <math>~z</math>-axis. These surfaces are toroidal surfaces. A toroidal surface of coordinate <math>~\eta</math> can be characterized by a "major radius" <math>~R</math> and a "minor radius" <math>~d</math> … The quantity <math>~\eta</math> varies from zero to infinity. The larger the value of <math>~\eta</math>, the smaller is the "minor radius" <math>~d</math>; when <math>~\eta</math> approaches infinity, the two-dimensional toroidal surface degenerates into a 1-dimensional circle with a radius <math>~a</math>. [Note that, otherwise, <math>~R</math> (the location of the center of the circular cross-section of the torus) does not coincide with <math>~a</math> (the location of the off-axis "origin" of the toroidal coordinate system).] The surfaces of constant <math>~\theta</math> are spherical bowls. The coordinate <math>~\theta</math> is defined in such a way that points above the x-y plane are characterized by positive values of <math>~\theta</math> while points below the x-y plane by negative values of <math>~\theta</math>. Thus — as is the case for a traditional spherical coordinate system — <math>~\theta</math> varies from <math>~- \pi</math> to <math>~+\pi</math>. As is also the case for a spherical coordinate system, the surfaces of constant <math>~\psi</math> are half planes through the axis of symmetry. The coordinate <math>~\psi</math> varies from <math>~0</math> to <math>~2\pi</math>.

Given a toroidal surface of major radius <math>~R</math> and minor radius <math>~d</math>, the parameter <math>~a</math> is defined such that,

<math>~a^2</math>

<math>~\equiv</math>

<math>~R^2 - d^2 \, ,</math>

Wong (1973), Eq. (2.8)

and the corresponding "radial" coordinate location <math>~\eta_0</math> of the relevant toroidal surface is,

<math>~\eta_0</math>

<math>~=</math>

<math>~\cosh^{-1}\biggl(\frac{R}{d}\biggr) \, .</math>

Wong (1973), Eq. (2.9)

Alternatively, given <math>~\eta_0</math> and the value of the parameter <math>~a</math>, we have,

<math>~R</math>

<math>~=</math>

<math>~a \coth\eta_0 \, ,</math>

<math>~d</math>

<math>~=</math>

<math>~\frac{a}{\sinh\eta_0} \, .</math>

Wong (1973), Eqs. (2.10) & (2.11)

Hence, the aspect ratio is,

<math>~\frac{R}{d}</math>

<math>~=</math>

<math>~\cosh\eta_0 \, .</math>

Wong (1973), Eq. (2.12)

See Also

  1. Shortly after their equation (3.2), Marcus, Press & Teukolsky make the following statement: "… we know that an equilibrium incompressible configuration must rotate uniformly on cylinders (the famous "Poincaré-Wavre" theorem, cf. Tassoul 1977, &Sect;4.3) …"


 

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