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Gravothermal Oscillations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Junichiro Makino
Junichiro Makino*
Affiliation:
Department of Graphics and Information Science, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan

Abstract

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We present the first clear evidence that the gravothermal oscillation takes place in N-body systems. We performed direct N-body simulations of systems of point-mass particles with particle numbers from 2,048 to 32,768. In the simulation with 32,768 particles, the central density shows an oscillation with an amplitude of ∼ 103, which is similar to what was observed in more approximate models such as a conducting gas sphere and one-dimensional Fokker-Planck calculations. The amplitude is smaller for a smaller number of particles. The number of particles in the core at the maximum contraction is ∼ 10 for all runs, while the number of particles at the maximum expansion is about 0.01N. For 16,384- and 32,768-body runs, the temperature inversion during the expansion phase is clearly visible.

Type
Large N-body Simulation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 174: Dynamical Evolution of Stars Clusters , 1996 , pp. 151 - 160
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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