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A Unified N-Body and Statistical Treatment of Stellar Dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Alan P. Lightman  and
Stephen L. W. McMillan
Alan P. Lightman
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Stephen L. W. McMillan
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Abstract

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We summarize the methods of a new “hybrid” computer code for stellar dynamics. All particles in the inner spatial region are followed exactly via a direct N-body code and all particles in the outer spatial region are treated statistically via a distribution function and Fokker-Planck type methods. An intermediate region, with features of both, allows exchange of particles and energy between the outer and inner regions. We apply our code to the period just before core collapse and just after and summarize the results.

Type
May 30: Model System in the Point-Mass Approximation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 113: Dynamic of Stars Clusters , 1985 , pp. 261 - 274
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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