English

Collapse and evaporation of a canonical self-gravitating gas

Statistical Mechanics 2010-03-05 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We review the out-of-equilibrium properties of a self-gravitating gas of particles in the presence of a strong friction and a random force (canonical gas). We assume a bare diffusion coefficient of the form D(ρ)=Tρ1/nD(\rho)=T\rho^{1/n}, where ρ\rho is the local particle density, so that the equation of state is P(ρ)=D(ρ)ρP(\rho)=D(\rho)\rho. Depending on the spatial dimension dd, the index nn, the temperature TT, and whether the system is confined to a finite box or not, the system can reach an equilibrium state, collapse or evaporate. This article focuses on the latter cases, presenting a complete dynamical phase diagram of the system.

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@article{arxiv.1003.1118,
  title  = {Collapse and evaporation of a canonical self-gravitating gas},
  author = {Clément Sire and Pierre-Henri Chavanis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.1118},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

A short review summarizing our results on self-gravitating gas since 2002