Dissipationless collapse of a set of N massive particles

Details Dissipationless collapse of a set of N massive particles Dissipationless collapse of a set of N massive particles

2003-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310871v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 348 (2004) 62-72

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 15 postscript figures. This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of The Royal Ast

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07294.x

The formation of self-gravitating systems is studied by simulating the collapse of a set of N particles which are generated from several distribution functions. We first establish that the results of such simulations depend on N for small values of N. We complete a previous work by Aguilar and Merritt concerning the morphological segregation between spherical and elliptical equilibria. We find and interpret two new segregations: one concerns the equilibrium core size and the other the equilibrium temperature. All these features are used to explain some of the global properties of self-gravitating objects: origin of globular clusters and central black hole or shape of elliptical galaxies.

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