Gravothermal Catastrophe in Rotating Galaxies

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Nov 1972

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1972ap%26ss..19..201c&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 19, Issue 1, pp.201-206

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Violent relaxation in a rotating galaxy can lead to a core-halo, system. In order to understand this, a very, crude model is studied in which all details are ignored, and only the dimensions of physical quantities are retained. The behaviour depends on the ratio η of the potential in the core to the potential in the halo. When η>5/2, the core contracts; when η>5, the contraction is a runaway process, or ‘gravothermal catastrophe’.

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