Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-01-27
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 350 (2004) 671
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Paper accepted for publication in MNRAS, with four figures
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07674.x
A family of potential--density pairs has been found for spherical halos and bulges of galaxies in the Newtonian limit of scalar--tensor theories of gravity. The scalar field is described by a Klein--Gordon equation with a source that is coupled to the standard Poisson equation of Newtonian gravity. The net gravitational force is given by two contributions: the standard Newtonian potential plus a term stemming from massive scalar fields. General solutions have been found for spherical systems. In particular, we compute potential--density pairs of spherical galactic systems, and some other astrophysical quantities that are relevant to generating initial conditions for spherical galaxy simulations.
Cervantes-Cota Jorge L.
Rodriguez-Meza Mario A.
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