The time-scale for core collapse in spherical star clusters

New Astronomy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 255-270

  Quinlan, Gerald D ^a,b  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Celestial mechanics; Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: star clusters; Globular clusters: general; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039882946     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1384-1076(96)00018-8     Document Type: Article

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