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Dynamical Theory of Spherical Stellar Systems with Large N

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

L. Spitzer Jr.
L. Spitzer Jr.*
Affiliation:
Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, N.J., U.S.A.

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The dynamical evolution of a spherical star system is attractive to the theorist for two reasons. In the first place the physical problem, with some idealization, appears to have an appealing, if somewhat deceptive, simplicity; a large number of point masses, attracting each other with inverse-square gravitational forces, are assumed to move in a quasi-steady system with spherical symmetry. In the second place, the observed globular clusters appear to conform rather closely to this ideal of a spherical star system; to analyze the changes of these clusters with time, resulting from the dynamical interaction of stars with each other, is surely an important aspect of the theory of galactic evolution.

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Part I/Spherical Systems
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 69: Dynamics of Stellar Systems , 1975 , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © Reidel 1975 

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