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We study the various approximations used to investigate the eigenmode spectrum for systems with highly elongated stellar orbits. The approximation in which the elongated orbits are represented by thin rotating spokes, with the rotation imitating the precession of real orbits, is the simplest and most natural one. However, we show that using this pictorial approximation does not allow the picture of stability to be properly presented. We show that for stellar systems with a plane disk geometry, this approach does not allow unstable spectral modes to be obtained even in the leading order in small parameter, which characterizes the spread of nearly radial orbits in angular momentum. For spherical systems, where the situation is more favorable, the spectrum can be determined but only in the leading order in this parameter. A rigorous approach based on the solution of more complex integral equations given here should be used to properly investigate the stability of stellar systems.
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Original Russian Text © V.L. Polyachenko, E.V. Polyachenko, I.G. Shukhman, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 100–113.
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Polyachenko, V.L., Polyachenko, E.V. & Shukhman, I.G. On various approaches to investigating the instability of stellar systems with highly elongated stellar orbits. Astron. Lett. 35, 87–99 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773709020030
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