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''Anchor ring'' schematic, adapted from figure near the top of &sect;2 (on p. 47) of Dyson (1893a)<br />
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Dyson (1893)

Whitworth's (1981) Isothermal Free-Energy Surface
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Overview

In his pioneering work, F. W. Dyson (1893, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. A., 184, 43 - 95) and (1893, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. A., 184, 1041 - 1106) used analytic techniques to determine the approximate equilibrium structure of axisymmetric, uniformly rotating, incompressible tori. C.-Y. Wong (1974, ApJ, 190, 675 - 694) extended Dyson's work, using numerical techniques to obtain more accurate — but still approximate — equilibrium structures for incompressible tori having solid body rotation. Since then, Y. Eriguchi & D. Sugimoto (1981, Progress of Theoretical Physics, 65, 1870 - 1875) and I. Hachisu, J. E. Tohline & Y. Eriguchi (1987, ApJ, 323, 592 - 613) have mapped out the full sequence of Dyson-Wong tori, beginning from a bifurcation point on the Maclaurin spheroid sequence.

External Potential

On p. 62 of F. W. Dyson (1893, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. A., 184, 43 - 95), Dyson presents the following approximate expression for the potential everywhere exterior to an anchor ring:

Equation image extracted without modification from p. 62 of F. W. Dyson (1893)

The Potential of an Anchor Ring, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London. A., Vol. 184

The Potential Exterior to an Anchor Ring

Anchor ring schematic, adapted from figure near the top of §2 (on p. 47) of Dyson (1893a)

Anchor Ring Schematic
Figures 1 - 6 extracted without modification from pp. 63-66 of F. W. Dyson (1893)

The Potential of an Anchor Ring, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London. A., Vol. 184

The Potential Exterior to an Anchor Ring; R/d = infinity
The Potential Exterior to an Anchor Ring; R/d = 5
The Potential Exterior to an Anchor Ring; R/d = 2.5
The Potential Exterior to an Anchor Ring; R/d = 1.667
The Potential Exterior to an Anchor Ring; R/d = 1.25
The Potential Exterior to an Anchor Ring; R/d = 1

See Also

The following quotes have been taken from Petroff & Horatschek (2008):

§1:   "The problem of the self-gravitating ring captured the interest of such renowned scientists as Kowalewsky (1885), Poincaré (1885a,b,c) and Dyson (1892, 1893). Each of them tackled the problem of an axially symmetric, homogeneous ring in equilibrium by expanding it about the thin ring limit. In particular, Dyson provided a solution to fourth order in the parameter <math>~\sigma = a/b</math>, where <math>~a = r_t</math> provides a measure for the radius of the cross-section of the ring and <math>~b = \varpi_t</math> the distance of the cross-section's centre of mass from the axis of rotation."

§7:   "In their work on homogeneous rings, Poincaré and Kowalewsky, whose results disagreed to first order, both had made mistakes as Dyson has shown. His result to fourth order is also erroneous as we point out in Appendix B."

  1. Shortly after their equation (3.2), Marcus, Press & Teukolsky make the following statement: "… we know that an equilibrium incompressible configuration must rotate uniformly on cylinders (the famous "Poincaré-Wavre" theorem, cf. Tassoul 1977, &Sect;4.3) …"


 

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