Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-09-21
Astrophys.J. 513 (1999) 383-400
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
AASTEX, 22 pages plus 28 postscript figures, to appear in Ap. J
Scientific paper
10.1086/306854
We make a detailed analysis of Newtonian as well as relativistic core-shell models recently proposed to describe a black hole or neutron star surrounded by shells of matter, and in a seminal sense also galaxies, supernovae and star remnants since there are massive shell-like structures surrounding many of them and also evidences for many galactic nuclei hiding black holes. We discuss the unicity of the models in relation to their analyticity at the black hole horizon and also to the full elimination of conical singularities. Secondly, we study the role played by the presence/lack of discrete reflection symmetries about equatorial planes in the chaotic behavior of the orbits, which is to be contrasted with the almost universal acceptance of reflection symmetries as default assumptions in galactic modeling. We also compare the related effects if we change a true central black hole by a Newtonian central mass. The numerical findings are: 1- The breakdown of the reflection symmetry about the equatorial plane in both Newtonian and relativistic core-shell models does i) enhance in a significant way the chaoticity of orbits in reflection symmetric oblate shell models and ii) inhibit significantly also the occurrence of chaos in reflection symmetric prolate shell models. In particular, in the prolate case the lack of the reflection symmetry provides the phase space with a robust family of regular orbits that is otherwise not found at higher energies. 2- The relative extents of the chaotic regions in the relativistic cases (i. e. with a true central black hole) are significantly larger than in the corresponding Newtonian ones (which have just a $-1/r$ central potential).
Letelier Patricio S.
Vieira Werner M.
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