A Fokker-Planck Model of Rotating Stellar Clusters
| dc.creator | Girash, J. | |
| dc.date | 1997-04-05 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:23:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:23:09Z | |
| dc.description | We have developed a two-dimensional orbit averaged Fokker-Planck model of stellar clusters which expands on spherically symmetric one-dimensional models to include rotation and ellipticity. Physical effects such as collisions, finite stellar lifetimes and bar formation (i.e., a non-axisymmetric component of the potential) can also be included. The first use of the model is to study the evolution of dense clusters (rho(r=0)=~10^7 M_sun/pc^3) that may be expected to have existed at the centres of newly-forming galaxies, with the goal of verifying that angular momentum can be removed from the core of the cluster quickly enough so that rotation no longer prevents the formation of a massive (~10^2 M_sun) object. This could act as the seed black hole for the formation of an AGN. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages, Latex (paspconf.sty required), 4 postscript figures. To appear in Proceedings of the 12th Kingston meeting on Theoretical Astrophysics: Computational Astrophysics, eds. D.A. Clarke & M.J. West, ASP Conference Series, (San Francisco: ASP) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9704053 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9704053 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11139 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | A Fokker-Planck Model of Rotating Stellar Clusters | |
| dc.type | text |