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Self-similar spherical collapse with non-radial motions

arXiv:astro-ph/0008217 · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04527.x

Abstract

We derive the asymptotic mass profile near the collapse center of an initial spherical density perturbation, , of collision-less particles with non-radial motions. We show that angular momenta introduced at the initial time do not affect the mass profile. Alternatively, we consider a scheme in which a particle moves on a radial orbit until it reaches its turnaround radius, r_*. At turnaround the particle acquires an angular momentum per unit mass, where M_* is the mass interior to r_*. In this scheme, the mass profile is for all , in the region , where r_t is the current turnaround radius. If then the profile in the region is for . The derivation relies on a general property of non-radial orbits which is that ratio of the pericenter to apocenter is constant in a force field k(t) r^{n} with k(t) varying adiabatically.

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