A tensor virial-equation for stellar dynamics
Abstract
A tensor virial-equation is derived for a system consisting of equal mass-points, appropriately for stellar dynamics, by starting with the Liouville equation governing an ensemble of such systems in the six N-dimensional phase space.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- 1968
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/139.2.135
- Bibcode:
- 1968MNRAS.139..135C