Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1999-10-25
Phys.Lett. A266 (2000) 309-320
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
17 pages, 7 figures, uses REVTEX
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00032-3
We study the planar motion of test particles in gravitational fields produced by an external material halo, of the type found in many astrophysical systems, such as elliptical galaxies and globular clusters. Both the Newtonian and the general-relativistic dynamics are examined, and in the relativistic case the dynamics of both massive and massless particles are investigated. The halo field is given in general by a multipole expansion; we restrict ourselves to multipole fields of pure order, whose Newtonian potentials are homogeneous polynomials in cartesian coordinates. A pure (n)-pole field has (n) different escapes, one of which is chosen by the particle according to its initial conditions. We find that the escape has a fractal dependency on the initial conditions for (n>2) both in the Newtonian and the relativistic cases for massive test particles, but with important differences between them. The relativistic motion of massless particles, however, was found to be regular for all the fields we could study. The box-counting dimension was used in each case to quantify the sensitivity to initial conditions which arises from the fractality of the escape route.
de Moura Alessandro P. S.
Letelier Patricio S.
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