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Principal Governing Equations (PGEs)		Continuity		Euler		1st Law of Thermodynamics		Poisson

 

Equation of State (EOS)		Total Pressure

Spherically Symmetric Configurations

One-Dimensional PGEs

Equilibrium Structures

Hydrostatic Balance Equation		<math>~\frac{dP}{dr} = - \frac{GM_r \rho}{r^2}</math>		Solution Strategies

 

Isothermal Sphere		<math>~\frac{1}{\xi^2} \frac{d}{d\xi}\biggl( \xi^2 \frac{d\psi}{d\xi} \biggr) = e^{-\psi}</math>		via Direct Numerical Integration

 

Isolated Polytropes		<math>~\frac{1}{\xi^2} \frac{d}{d\xi}\biggl( \xi^2 \frac{d\Theta_H}{d\xi} \biggr) = - \Theta_H^n</math>		Known Analytic Solutions		via Direct Numerical Integration		via Self-Consistent Field (SCF) Technique

 

Zero-Temperature White Dwarf		Chandrasekhar Limiting Mass (1935)

 

Pressure-Truncated Configurations		Bonnor-Ebert (Isothermal) Spheres (1955 - 56)		Polytropes		Equilibrium Sequence Turning-Points

 

Composite Polytropes (Bipolytropes)		Schönberg- Chandrasekhar Mass (1942)		Analytic <math>~(n_c, n_e)</math> = <math>~(5,1)</math>		Analytic <math>~(n_c, n_e)</math> = <math>~(1,5)</math>		Equilibrium Sequence Turning-Points

Stability Analysis

Radial Pulsation Equation		Example Derivations & Statement of Eigenvalue Problem		Jeans (1928) or Bonnor (1957)		Ledoux & Walraven (1958)		Rosseland (1969)		Relationship to Sound Waves

 

Uniform-Density Configurations		Sterne's Analytic Sol'n of Eigenvalue Problem (1937)

 

Pressure-Truncated Isothermal Spheres		<math>~0 = \frac{d^2x}{d\xi^2} + \biggl[4 - \xi \biggl( \frac{d\psi}{d\xi} \biggr) \biggr] \frac{1}{\xi} \cdot \frac{dx}{d\xi} + \biggl[ \biggl( \frac{\sigma_c^2}{6\gamma_\mathrm{g}}\biggr)\xi^2 - \alpha \xi \biggl( \frac{d\psi}{d\xi} \biggr) \biggr] \frac{x}{\xi^2} </math> where:    <math>~\sigma_c^2 \equiv \frac{3\omega^2}{2\pi G\rho_c}</math>     and,     <math>~\alpha \equiv \biggl(3 - \frac{4}{\gamma_\mathrm{g}}\biggr)</math>		via Direct Numerical Integration

Yabushita's Analytic Sol'n for Marginally Unstable Configurations (1974)		<math>~\sigma_c^2 = 0 \, , ~~~~\gamma_\mathrm{g} = 1</math>  and   <math>~x = 1 - \biggl( \frac{1}{\xi e^{-\psi}}\biggr) \frac{d\psi}{d\xi} </math>

 

Polytropes		<math>~0 = \frac{d^2x}{d\xi^2} + \biggl[ 4 - (n+1) Q \biggr] \frac{1}{\xi} \cdot \frac{dx}{d\xi} + (n+1) \biggl[ \biggl( \frac{\sigma_c^2}{6\gamma_g } \biggr) \frac{\xi^2}{\theta} - \alpha Q\biggr] \frac{x}{\xi^2} </math> where:    <math>~Q(\xi) \equiv - \frac{d\ln\theta}{d\ln\xi} \, ,</math>    <math>~\sigma_c^2 \equiv \frac{3\omega^2}{2\pi G\rho_c} \, ,</math>     and,     <math>~\alpha \equiv \biggl(3 - \frac{4}{\gamma_\mathrm{g}}\biggr)</math>		Isolated n = 3 Polytrope				Pressure-Truncated Configurations

Our Analytic Sol'n for Marginally Unstable Configurations (2017)		<math>~\sigma_c^2 = 0 \, , ~~~~\gamma_\mathrm{g} = (n+1)/n</math>  and   <math>~x = \frac{3(n-1)}{2n}\biggl[1 + \biggl(\frac{n-3}{n-1}\biggr) \biggl( \frac{1}{\xi \theta^{n}}\biggr) \frac{d\theta}{d\xi}\biggr] </math>

 

Nonlinear Dynamical Evolution

Free-Fall Collapse

 

Collapse of Isothermal Spheres		via Direct Numerical Integration		Similarity Solution

 

Collapse of an Isolated n = 3 Polytrope

 

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