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A Statistical Treatment of Low-N Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Stefano Casertano
Stefano Casertano*
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

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The long-term evolution of N-body systems with high N (>104) cannot yet be studied by direct integration of the equations of motion. Instead, the study of systems with smaller N can give insight into the higher N limit in two ways. First, we can measure the dependence on N of all quantities of interest for a range of N-values, and extrapolate the results to higher N. Second, even a very high-N system will eventually undergo core collapse, at which point the central dynamics will be dominated by a subset of stars with small N (10–100).

Type
May 30: Model System in the Point-Mass Approximation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 113: Dynamic of Stars Clusters , 1985 , pp. 305 - 308
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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