Collisionless relaxation in gravitational systems: From violent relaxation to gravothermal collapse

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

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Levin, Yan ^a   Pakter, Renato ^a   Rizzato, Felipe B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; CENTRAL CORE; COLLISIONLESS; GRAVITATIONAL SYSTEMS; HALO STRUCTURES; META-STABLE STATES; N-BODY SYSTEM; ONE-PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION; PARTIAL EVAPORATION; POTEN TIAL ENERGY; TIME SCALING; VIOLENT RELAXATION;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 50249091559     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021130     Document Type: Article

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