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Ellipsoidal Stellar Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

C. Hunter
C. Hunter*
Affiliation:
The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla., U.S.A.

Abstract

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This paper gives a unified account of exact solutions for ellipsoids of uniform density. An approximate solution for a slightly spheroidal system of non-uniform density is given in the final section.

Type
Part II/Flattened Systems
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 69: Dynamics of Stellar Systems , 1975 , pp. 195 - 203
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1975 

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