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Numerical Experiments on Expanding Gravitational Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

G. Janin
Affiliation:
European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany The University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
M. J. Haggerty
Affiliation:
European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany The University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.

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It has been suggested that particle positions in expanding N-body gravitational systems may become increasingly correlated. Such incoherent density fluctuations could develop into bound clusters. Similarly superclusters of such clusters may be dynamically created. We present results of explorations of this idea, using computer simulation. Accurate integrations are made of gravitationally interacting systems of a few hundred particles.

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Copyright © Reidel 1974