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 , where is the local particle density, so that the equation of state is . Depending on the spatial dimension , the index , the temperature , 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