Abstract
In the context of the recently developed “equation-free” approach to computer-assisted analysis of complex systems, we extract the self-similar solution describing core collapse of a stellar system from numerical experiments. The technique allows us to side-step the core “bounce” that occurs in direct N-body simulations due to the small-N correlations that develop in the late stages of collapse, and hence to follow the evolution well into the self-similar regime.
Publication Date
8-19-2005
Document Type
Article
Department, Program, or Center
School of Physics and Astronomy (COS)
Recommended Citation
A. Szell, D. Merritt, I. Kevrekidis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 081102 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.081102
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Comments
This is the pre-print of an article published by the American Physical Society. The final, published version is available here: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.081102
© 2005 American Physical Society
Also archived in: arXiv: astro-ph/0504546 v2 6 May 2005
This work was supported by grants AST-0206031, AST-0420920, AST-0437519, and CTS-0205484 from the NSF, grants NNG04GJ48G and NAG 5-10842 from NASA, and grant HST-AR-09519.01-A from STScI.
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