Dynamics of Globular Clusters
Abstract
In their attempt to reach kinetic equilibrium, through gravitational encounters between separate stars, globular clusters are driven to destruction, with their cores collapsing and their outer regions expanding. The effects of core collapse, which apparently produces x-ray sources, are not yet fully understood, but white dwarfs and neutron stars, probably in binary systems, are thought to be involved, and possibly black holes as well.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- August 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.225.4661.465
- Bibcode:
- 1984Sci...225..465S
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Models;
- Celestial Mechanics;
- Globular Clusters;
- Stellar Motions;
- Binary Stars;
- Gravitational Collapse;
- Many Body Problem;
- Neutron Stars;
- Space Density;
- Stellar Cores;
- White Dwarf Stars;
- X Ray Sources;
- Astrophysics