Universal non-Gaussian velocity distribution in violent gravitational processes

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Iguchi, Osamu ^a   Sota, Yasuhide ^a,b   Tatekawa, Takayuki ^b   Nakamichi, Akika ^c   Morikawa, Masahiro ^a  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Gunma Astronomical Observatory   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY SCALES; SPHERICAL COLLAPSES; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; VIOLENT GRAVITATIONAL PROCESSES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; GRAVITATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SPHERES;

VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 41349116912     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.016102     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. G. de Vaucouleurs, Ann. Astrophys. 11, 247 (1948).
2. V. Albada, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 201, 939 (1982).
3. W. Jaffe, Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies, I. A. U. Symposium No. 127, edited by T. de Zeeuw (Reidel, Dordrecht, 1987), p. 511.
4. J. Makino, K. Akiyama, and D. Sugimoto, Publ. Astron. Soc. Jpn. 42, 205 (1990).
5. L. A. Aguilar and D. Merritt, Astrophys. J. 354, 33 (1990).
6. M. Hénon, Ann. Astrophys. 27, 83 (1964).
7. T. E. C. Merrall and R. N. Henriksen, Astrophys. J. 595, 43 (2003).
8. M. Stiavelli and G. Bertin, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 217, 735 (1985).
9. N. Kanaeda and M. Morikawa, Natural Science Report of the Ochanomizu University, 2003, Vol. 54, p. 19.
10. J. Binney and S. Tremaine, Galactic Dynamics (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1987).
11. P. Jund, S. G. Kim, and C. Tsallis, Phys. Rev. B 52, 50 (1995).
12. C. Beck and E. D. G. Cohen, Physica A 322, 267 (2003).
13. C. Tsallis, J. Stat. Phys. 52, 479 (1988).
14. Y. Sota, O. Iguchi, M. Morikawa, T. Tatekawa, and K. Maeda, Phys. Rev. E 64, 056133 (2001).
15. L. Spitzer, Jr., Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1987).
16. A. Kawai, T. Fukushige, J. Makino, and M. Taiji, Publ. Astron. Soc. Jpn. 52, 659 (2000).
17. L. Bell, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 136, 101 (1967).
18. Y. Sola, O. Iguchi, M. Morikawa, and A. Nakamichi, e-print astro-ph/0403411.