Dynamics of Stellar Collisions
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
I compare gas-dynamical and stellar-dynamical models of collisions. These two models have distinctly different physics; for example, shocks introduce irreversibility in gas systems, while stellar systems evolve in a completely reversible fashion. Nonetheless, both models yield broadly similar results, suggesting that analogies between gas and stellar dynamics have some heuristic validity even applied to collisions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0010145,
title = {Dynamics of Stellar Collisions},
author = {Joshua E. Barnes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0010145},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
16 pages, 10 figures. To appear in Stellar Collisions, Mergers, and Their Consequences, M. Shara, ed. Also available at http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/barnes/dosc.html