Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-01-26
Comptes Rendus Physique 7 (2006) 391-397
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, Invited lecture at `Statistical Mechanics of Non-Extensive Systems', Observatoire de Paris, October 2005, to be publ
Scientific paper
We show that the self-gravitating gas at thermal equilibrium has an infinite volume limit in the three ensembles (GCE, CE, MCE) when (N, V) -> infty, keeping N/V^{1/3} fixed, that is, with eta = G m^2 N/[ V^{1/3} T] fixed. We develop MonteCarlo simulations, analytic mean field methods (MF) and low density expansions. We compute the equation of state and find it to be locally p(r) = T rho_V(r), that is a local ideal gas equation of state. The system is in a gaseous phase for eta < eta_T = 1.51024...and collapses into a very dense object for eta > eta_T in the CE with the pressure becoming large and negative. The isothermal compressibility diverges at eta = eta_T. We compute the fluctuations around mean field for the three ensembles. We show that the particle distribution can be described by a Haussdorf dimension 1 < D < 3.
de Vega Hector J.
Sanchez Norma G.
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