Dynamics of Stellar Collisions

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2000-10-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010145v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 10 figures. To appear in Stellar Collisions, Mergers, and Their Consequences, M. Shara, ed. Also available at http

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I compare gas-dynamical and stellar-dynamical models of collisions. These two models have distinctly different physics; for example, shocks introduce irreversibility in gas systems, while stellar systems evolve in a completely reversible fashion. Nonetheless, both models yield broadly similar results, suggesting that analogies between gas and stellar dynamics have some heuristic validity even applied to collisions.

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