Self-Similar Approach to Violent Relaxation
| dc.creator | Henriksen, Richard | |
| dc.creator | Widrow, Lawrence M. | |
| dc.date | 1996-12-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-25T20:16:42Z | |
| dc.description | We consider the evolution of an initially cold, spherically symmetric system of self-gravitating particles. At early times the system undergoes self-similar collapse of the type described by Fillmore & Goldreich and Bertschinger. This stage of phase mixing soon gives way to a period of violent relaxation driven by an instability in the similarity solution. The onset of violent relaxation is illustrated by numerical simulations and supported by non-linear analysis of the ``scaled'' collisionless Boltzmann and Poisson equations. | |
| dc.description | 5 pages, 2 postscript figures in compressed format, submitted to Physical Review Letters | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9612023 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9612023 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/70087 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Self-Similar Approach to Violent Relaxation | |
| dc.type | text |