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Dynamical Friction and Orbit Circularization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
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We study the change in shape of the orbit of a satellite sinking (because of dynamical friction) towards the center of a larger galaxy. the galaxy is assumed spherically symmetric with distribution function either isotropic or predominantly radial. the satellite is a softened point mass.
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 127: Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies , 1987 , pp. 475 - 476
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- Copyright © Reidel 1987