Dissipationless collapse of a set of N massive particles
2004
Publication type:
Paper in peer-reviewed journals
Journal:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 348(1), pp. 62-72
HAL:
Abstract:
The formation of self-gravitating systems is studied by simulating the collapse of a set of N particles which are generated from several distribution functions. We first establish that the results of such simulations depend on N for small values of N. We complete a previous work by Aguilar & Merritt concerning the morphological segregation between spherical and elliptical equilibria. We find and interpret two new segregations: one concerns the equilibrium core size and the other the equilibrium temperature. All these features are used to explain some of the global properties of self-gravitating objects: origin of globular clusters and central black hole or shape of elliptical galaxies.
BibTeX:
@article{Per-Roy-2004,
author={Jérôme Perez and Fabrice Roy },
title={Dissipationless collapse of a set of N massive particles },
doi={10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07294.x },
journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society },
year={2004 },
volume={348(1) },
pages={62--72},
}