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Collisional Stellar Dynamics in General Relativity: An Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Henry E. Kandrup
Henry E. Kandrup*
Affiliation:
Center for Relativity, Center for Theoretical Physics Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 U.S.A.

Abstract

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Recently, Israel and Kandrup (1984; Kandrup 1984 a,b,c,d) have formulated a new, manifestly covariant approach to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics in classical general relativity. The object here is to indicate how that formalism may be used to construct a theory of ‘collisional’ stellar dynamics, valid for a collection of point mass stars in the limit that incoherent radiative effects may be neglected.

Type
May 30: Model System in the Point-Mass Approximation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 113: Dynamic of Stars Clusters , 1985 , pp. 323 - 325
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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