On the Minimum Distance Cutoff for Stellar Encounters
Abstract
The authors show that the need to adopt a minimum distance cutoff for the stellar encounters arises from the use of approximate formulae. If exact formulae are used, there is no problem in taking that distance as zero.
- Publication:
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Astrophysical Letters and Communications
- Pub Date:
- June 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988ApL&C..27...23M
- Keywords:
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- Computational Astrophysics;
- Gravitational Effects;
- Perturbation Theory;
- Stellar Motions;
- Celestial Mechanics;
- Encounters;
- Star Clusters;
- Stellar Rotation;
- Astrophysics