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Statistical Mechanics and Equilibrium Sequences of Ellipticals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

M. Stiavelli
Affiliation:
Scuola Normale Superiore, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
G. Bertin
Affiliation:
Scuola Normale Superiore, I-56100 Pisa, Italy

Abstract

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Elliptical galaxies are expected to have undergone incomplete violent relaxation. Here incomplete relaxation is regarded as a process producing a metastable, long-lived state which is dynamically stabilized by the approximate conservation of one global quantity in addition to the total energy and number of particles.

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Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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