Secular stability and instability in stellar systems surrounding massive objects

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 625, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 143-155

  Tremaine, Scott ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: center; Oort Cloud

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144489215     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/429713     Document Type: Article

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