Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Idealized homogeneous systems – basic ideas and gentle relaxation
- Part II Infinite inhomogeneous systems – galaxy clustering
- 20 How does matter fill the Universe?
- 21 Gravitational instability of the infinite expanding gas
- 22 Gravitational graininess initiates clustering
- 23 Growth of the two-galaxy correlation function
- 24 The energy and early scope of clustering
- 25 Later evolution of cosmic correlation energies
- 26 N-body simulations
- 27 Evolving spatial distributions
- 28 Evolving velocity distributions
- 29 Short review of basic thermodynamics
- 30 Gravity and thermodynamics
- 31 Gravithermodynamic instability
- 32 Thermodynamics and galaxy clustering; ξ(r)∝r-2
- 33 Efficiency of gravitational clustering
- 34 Non-linear theory of high order correlations
- 35 Problems and extensions
- 36 Bibliography
- Part III Finite spherical systems – clusters of galaxies, galactic nuclei, globular clusters
- Part IV Finite flattened systems – galaxies
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Idealized homogeneous systems – basic ideas and gentle relaxation
- Part II Infinite inhomogeneous systems – galaxy clustering
- 20 How does matter fill the Universe?
- 21 Gravitational instability of the infinite expanding gas
- 22 Gravitational graininess initiates clustering
- 23 Growth of the two-galaxy correlation function
- 24 The energy and early scope of clustering
- 25 Later evolution of cosmic correlation energies
- 26 N-body simulations
- 27 Evolving spatial distributions
- 28 Evolving velocity distributions
- 29 Short review of basic thermodynamics
- 30 Gravity and thermodynamics
- 31 Gravithermodynamic instability
- 32 Thermodynamics and galaxy clustering; ξ(r)∝r-2
- 33 Efficiency of gravitational clustering
- 34 Non-linear theory of high order correlations
- 35 Problems and extensions
- 36 Bibliography
- Part III Finite spherical systems – clusters of galaxies, galactic nuclei, globular clusters
- Part IV Finite flattened systems – galaxies
- Index
Summary
Section 20:
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Kiang, T. & Saslaw, W.C., 1969. ‘The distribution in space of clusters of galaxies’, MNRAS, 143, 129.
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Peebles, P.J.E., 1980. The Large Scale Structure of the Universe (Princeton: Princeton UP).
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Section 21:
Abramowitz, M. & Stegun, I.A., 1964. Handbook of Mathematical Functions (Washington: US Govt. Printing Office).
Bonnor, W.B., 1957. ‘Jeans’ formula for gravitational instability’, MNRAS, 117, 104.
Ellis, G.F.R. & MacCallum, M.A.H., 1969. ‘A class of homogeneous cosmological models’, Comm. Math. Phys., 12, 108.
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- Gravitational Physics of Stellar and Galactic Systems , pp. 259 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985