Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Idealized homogeneous systems – basic ideas and gentle relaxation
- Part II Infinite inhomogeneous systems – galaxy clustering
- Part III Finite spherical systems – clusters of galaxies, galactic nuclei, globular clusters
- 37 Breakaway
- 38 Violent relaxation
- 39 Symmetry and Jeans' theorem
- 40 Quasi-equilibrium models
- 41 Applying the virial theorem
- 42 Observed dynamical properties of clusters
- 43 Gravithermal instabilities
- 44 Self-similar transport
- 45 Evaporation and escape
- 46 Mass segregation and equipartition
- 47 Orbit segregation
- 48 Binary formation and cluster evolution
- 49 Slingshot
- 50 Role of a central singularity
- 51 Role of a distributed background
- 52 Physical stellar collisions
- 53 More star–gas interactions
- 54 Problems and extensions
- 55 Bibliography
- Part IV Finite flattened systems – galaxies
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Idealized homogeneous systems – basic ideas and gentle relaxation
- Part II Infinite inhomogeneous systems – galaxy clustering
- Part III Finite spherical systems – clusters of galaxies, galactic nuclei, globular clusters
- 37 Breakaway
- 38 Violent relaxation
- 39 Symmetry and Jeans' theorem
- 40 Quasi-equilibrium models
- 41 Applying the virial theorem
- 42 Observed dynamical properties of clusters
- 43 Gravithermal instabilities
- 44 Self-similar transport
- 45 Evaporation and escape
- 46 Mass segregation and equipartition
- 47 Orbit segregation
- 48 Binary formation and cluster evolution
- 49 Slingshot
- 50 Role of a central singularity
- 51 Role of a distributed background
- 52 Physical stellar collisions
- 53 More star–gas interactions
- 54 Problems and extensions
- 55 Bibliography
- Part IV Finite flattened systems – galaxies
- Index
Summary
Section 37:
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Section 38:
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Section 40:
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- Gravitational Physics of Stellar and Galactic Systems , pp. 391 - 396Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985