Optoelectronic Workshops. Dynamical Instabilities in Homogeneously Broadened Lasers (9th) (23 August 1988)

1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jr Stroud ◽  
Carlos R.
2019 ◽  
Vol 491 (4) ◽  
pp. 5595-5620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanson T S Poon ◽  
Richard P Nelson ◽  
Seth A Jacobson ◽  
Alessandro Morbidelli

ABSTRACT The NASA’s Kepler mission discovered ∼700 planets in multiplanet systems containing three or more transiting bodies, many of which are super-Earths and mini-Neptunes in compact configurations. Using N-body simulations, we examine the in situ, final stage assembly of multiplanet systems via the collisional accretion of protoplanets. Our initial conditions are constructed using a subset of the Kepler five-planet systems as templates. Two different prescriptions for treating planetary collisions are adopted. The simulations address numerous questions: Do the results depend on the accretion prescription?; do the resulting systems resemble the Kepler systems, and do they reproduce the observed distribution of planetary multiplicities when synthetically observed?; do collisions lead to significant modification of protoplanet compositions, or to stripping of gaseous envelopes?; do the eccentricity distributions agree with those inferred for the Kepler planets? We find that the accretion prescription is unimportant in determining the outcomes. The final planetary systems look broadly similar to the Kepler templates adopted, but the observed distributions of planetary multiplicities or eccentricities are not reproduced, because scattering does not excite the systems sufficiently. In addition, we find that ∼1 per cent of our final systems contain a co-orbital planet pair in horseshoe or tadpole orbits. Post-processing the collision outcomes suggests that they would not significantly change the ice fractions of initially ice-rich protoplanets, but significant stripping of gaseous envelopes appears likely. Hence, it may be difficult to reconcile the observation that many low-mass Kepler planets have H/He envelopes with an in situ formation scenario that involves giant impacts after dispersal of the gas disc.


1996 ◽  
Vol 77 (13) ◽  
pp. 2634-2637 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. G. Moretto ◽  
Th. Rubehn ◽  
L. Phair ◽  
N. Colonna ◽  
G. J. Wozniak ◽  
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1985 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 1077-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carson Jeffries ◽  
Kurt Wiesenfeld

Author(s):  
Bogdan C Ciambur ◽  
Francesca Fragkoudi ◽  
Sergey Khoperskov ◽  
Paola Di Matteo ◽  
Françoise Combes

Abstract Boxy, peanut– or X–shaped “bulges” are observed in a large fraction of barred galaxies viewed in, or close to, edge-on projection, as well as in the Milky Way. They are the product of dynamical instabilities occurring in stellar bars, which cause the latter to buckle and thicken vertically. Recent studies have found nearby galaxies that harbour two such features arising at different radial scales, in a nested configuration. In this paper we explore the formation of such double peanuts, using a collisionless N–body simulation of a pure disc evolving in isolation within a live dark matter halo, which we analyse in a completely analogous way to observations of real galaxies. In the simulation we find a stable double configuration consisting of two X/peanut structures associated to the same galactic bar – rotating with the same pattern speed – but with different morphology, formation time, and evolution. The inner, conventional peanut-shaped structure forms early via the buckling of the bar, and experiences little evolution once it stabilises. This feature is consistent in terms of size, strength and morphology, with peanut structures observed in nearby galaxies. The outer structure, however, displays a strong X, or “bow-tie”, morphology. It forms just after the inner peanut, and gradually extends in time (within 1 to 1.5 Gyr) to almost the end of the bar, a radial scale where ansae occur. We conclude that, although both structures form, and are dynamically coupled to, the same bar, they are supported by inherently different mechanisms.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (S359) ◽  
pp. 446-447
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Marostica ◽  
Rubens E. G. Machado

AbstractDark matter bars are structures that may form inside dark matter haloes of barred galaxies. Haloes can depart from sphericity and also be subject to some spin. The latter is known to have profound impacts on the evolution of both stellar and DM bars, such as stronger dynamical instabilities, more violent vertical bucklings and dissolution or impairment of stellar bar growth. On the other hand, dark matter bars of spherical haloes become initially stronger in the presence of spin. In this study, we add spin to triaxial halos in order to quantify and compare the strength of their bars. Using N-body simulations, we find that spin accelerates main instabilities and strengthens the halo bars, although their final strength depends only on triaxiality. The most triaxial halo barely forms a halo bar, showing that flattening opposes to DM bar strengthening and indicating that there is a limit on how flattened the parent structure can be.


2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 1340006
Author(s):  
DONATELLA CIAMPINI ◽  
OLIVER MORSCH ◽  
ENNIO ARIMONDO

The onset of dynamical instabilities of Bose–Einstein condensates in optical lattices due to the dephasing of the condensate wavefunction is observed through the decay of the visibility of the interference pattern in time-of-flight and the growth of the radial width of the condensate.


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