Hostname: page-component-7bb8b95d7b-l4ctd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-09-12T16:42:38.767Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Galactic Disk Shocks on Globular Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

N. Ramamani
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Edinburgh, UK, Present address: 5 The Hythe, Littleport, Ely, UK
D.C. Heggie
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Edinburgh, UK
S.J. Aarseth
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

We study tidal shocking on globular clusters by N-body simulation. The results, which cover a range of cluster and disk parameters, are compared with the impulsive approximation.

Type
Stellar Dynamics, Models
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

References

Binney, J., Tremaine, S., 1987, Galactic Dynamics. Princeton UP, Princeton.Google Scholar
Kuijken, K., Gilmore, G., 1989, MNRAS, 239, 571.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mihalas, D., Binney, J., 1981, Galactic Astronomy. Freeman, San Francisco.Google Scholar
Webbink, R.F., 1985, in Goodman, J., Hut, P., eds, Dynamics of Star Clusters, IAU Symp 113. Reidel, Dordrecht, p. 541.Google Scholar