Small-N collisional dynamics: Pushing into the realm of not-so-small N

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 425, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2369-2377

  Leigh, Nathan ^a   Geller, Aaron M ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries; Celestial mechanics; Close; Gravitation; Methods; Scattering; Statistical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865583142     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21689.x     Document Type: Article

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