Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-hc48f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-24T20:56:02.463Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Stellar Encounters in Dense Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Melvyn B. Davies
Melvyn B. Davies*
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy Cambridge, UK

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The number density of stars in the solar neighbourhood is sufficiently low that encounters between two stars will be extremely rare. However, in the cores of globular clusters, and glactic nuclei, number densities are sufficiently high (∼ 105 stars/pc3 in some systems) that encounter timescales can be comparable, or even less than, the age of the universe. In other words, a large fraction of the stars in these systems will have suffered from at least one close encounter or collision in their lifetime.

Type
August 25: X Ray and Compact Objects in Globular Clusters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 174: Dynamical Evolution of Stars Clusters , 1996 , pp. 243 - 252
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

References

Auriere, M., Ortolani, S., Lauzarel, G., 1990, Nature, 344, 638 Google Scholar
Bacon, D., Sigurdsson, S., Davies, M. B., 1995, MNRAS, submitted Google Scholar
Bailyn, C. D., Grindlay, J. E., 1987, ApJ, 316, L25 Google Scholar
Bailyn, C. D., Grindlay, J. E., Garcia, M., 1990, ApJ, 357,L35 Google Scholar
Bailyn, C. D., et al. 1995, in preparation Google Scholar
Benz, W., Bowers, R. L., Cameron, A. G. W., Press, W. H., 1989, ApJ, 348, 647 Google Scholar
Benz, W., Hills, J. G., 1987, ApJ, 323, 614 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Benz, W., Hills, J. G., 1992, ApJ, 389, 546 Google Scholar
Cannon, R. C., 1993, MNRAS, 263, 817 Google Scholar
Cleary, P. W., Monaghan, J. J., 1990, ApJ, 349, 150 Google Scholar
Cohn, H., 1980, ApJ, 242, 765 Google Scholar
Cool, A., 1993, , Google Scholar
Cool, A., Grindlay, J., Cohn, H., Lugger, P., Slavin, S., 1995, ApJ, 439, 695 Google Scholar
Davies, M. B., 1995, MNRAS, 276, 887 Google Scholar
Davies, M. B., Benz, W., 1995, MNRAS, 276, 887 Google Scholar
Davies, M. B., Benz, W., Hills, J. G., 1992, ApJ, 401, 246 Google Scholar
Davies, M. B., Benz, W., Hills, J. G., 1993, ApJ, 411, 285 Google Scholar
Davies, M. B., Benz, W., Hills, J. G., 1994, ApJ, 424, 870 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
de Young, D. S., 1968, ApJ, 153, 633 Google Scholar
Fabian, A., Pringle, J. E., Rees, M. J., 1975, 172, 17p Google Scholar
Grindlay, J., Cool, A., Callanan, P., Cohn, H., Lugger, P., Bailyn, C., 1995, ApJ, in press Google Scholar
Guhathakurta, P., Yanny, B., Schneider, D. P., Bahcall, J. N., 1996, ApJ, submitted Google Scholar
Hartwick, F. D. A., Hesser, J. E., 1972, ApJ, 175, 77 Google Scholar
Hernquist, L., Goodman, J., 1991, ApJ, 378, 637 Google Scholar
Hut, P., 1994, ApJS, 55, 301 Google Scholar
Hut, P., McMillan, S., Romani, R. W., 1992, ApJ, 389, 527 Google Scholar
Kulkarni, S. R., Narayan, R., Romani, R. W., 1990, ApJ, 356, 174 Google Scholar
Landau, L., Lifschitz, E., 1962, Quantum Mechanics (London: Wiley)Google Scholar
Lai, D., Rasio, F. A., Shapiro, S. L., 1993, ApJ, 412, 593 Google Scholar
Lombardi, J. C., Rasio, F. A., Shapiro, S. L., 1995, ApJ, submitted Google Scholar
Lynden-Bell, D., Wood, R., 1968, MNRAS, 138, 495 Google Scholar
Manchester, R. N., Lyne, A. G., Robinson, C., D'Amico, N., Lim, J., 1991, Nature, 352, 219 Google Scholar
Mathis, J. S., 1967, ApJ, 147, 1050 Google Scholar
Nemec, J. M., Harris, H. C., 1987, ApJ, 316, 172 Google Scholar
Paresce, F. et al, 1991, Nature, 352, 297 Google Scholar
Rasio, F. A., Shapiro, S., 1991, ApJ, 377, 559 Google Scholar
Ruffert, M., Müller, E., 1990, A&A, 238, 116 Google Scholar
Seidl, F. G. P., Cameron, A. G. W. 1972, AP Space Sci, 15, 44 Google Scholar
Sigurdsson, S., Phinney, E. S. P., 1995, ApJS, 1995, 99, 609 Google Scholar
Taam, R. E., Bodenheimer, P., 1989, ApJ, 337, 849 Google Scholar
Yanny, B., Schneider, D. P., Bahcall, J. N., Guhathakurta, P., 1994, ApJ, 435, L59 Google Scholar