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Adiabatic Invariants in Stellar Dynamics: II. Gravitational shocking
Published 1994-04-07Version 1
A new theory of gravitational shocking based on time-dependent perturbation theory shows that the changes in energy and angular momentum due to a slowly varying disturbance are not exponentially small for stellar dynamical systems in general. It predicts significant shock heating by slowly varying perturbations previously thought to be negligible according to the adiabatic criterion. The theory extends the scenarios traditionally computed only with the impulse approximation and is applicable to a wide class of disturbances. The approach is applied specifically to the problem of disk shocking of star clusters.
Comments: uuencoded compressed PostScript, Preprint 94-2
DOI: 10.1086/117162
Categories: astro-ph
Keywords: stellar dynamics, adiabatic invariants, gravitational shocking, time-dependent perturbation theory, angular momentum
Tags: journal article
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