Anisotropic Fokker-Planck Models of Star Clusters

Takahashi, Koji

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Anisotropic Fokker-Planck Models of Star Clusters

Koji Takahashi⁴

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Globular clusters are collisional stellar systems, i.e., their evolution is mainly driven by two-body relaxation. Since the effects of weak encounters are dominant, the dynamical evolution of globular clusters can be described by the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation.

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Department of Earth Sciences and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153, Japan
Koji Takahashi

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Theoretical Astrophysics Division, National Astronomical Observatory, Tokyo, Japan
Shoken M. Miyama
Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Niigata University, Japan
Kohji Tomisaka
Department of Astrophysics, Nagoya University, Japan
Tomoyuki Hanawa

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Takahashi, K. (1999). Anisotropic Fokker-Planck Models of Star Clusters. In: Miyama, S.M., Tomisaka, K., Hanawa, T. (eds) Numerical Astrophysics. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 240. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4780-4_26

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