Long-term evolution of stellar self-gravitating systems away from thermal equilibrium: Connection with nonextensive statistics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Taruya, Atsushi ^a   Sakagami, Masa Aki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; VELOCITY;

STELLAR SELF GRAVITATING SYSTEMS; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM; TWO BODY RELAXATION TIME;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 0038271919     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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