N-Body Simulations of Open, Self-Gravitating Systems

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2001-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101265v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 7 figures. To be published in the proceedings of "The Promise of FIRST" symposium, eds. G.L. Pilbratt, J. Cernicharo,

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Astrophysical systems differ often in two points from classical thermodynamical systems: 1.) They are open and 2.) gravity is a dominant factor. Both modifies the homogeneous equilibrium structure, known from classical thermodynamics. In order to study the consequence for structure formation in astrophysical systems, we carry out N-body simulations of self-gravitating systems, subjected to an energy-flow. The simulations show that physically realistic, time-dependent boundary conditions can maintain a molecular cloud in a statistically steady state, out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Moreover we perform some simple "gravo-thermal" N-body experiments and compare them with theoretical results. We find negative specific heat in an energy range predicted by Follana and Laliena (1999).

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