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Close Encounters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Jeremy Goodman
Jeremy Goodman*
Affiliation:
130-33 Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 U.S.A.

Abstract

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The mathematical treatment of encounters is discussed briefly, and it is pointed out that in a spherical system with an isotropic distribution function and equal-mass stars, the relevant equations can be analytically orbit-averaged. Even in small systems, close encounters have little effect on core collapse. Near a black hole, however, close encounters may cause an accumulation of stars on large, very eccentric orbits.

Information

Type
May 30: Model System in the Point-Mass Approximation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 113: Dynamic of Stars Clusters , 1985, pp. 179 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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