Finite Mass Isothermal Spheres and the Structure of Globular Clusters
Astrophysics
2015-06-24 v1
Abstract
Utilizing a recently derived extension of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution to low occupation numbers (Simons 1994) this investigation discusses the structure of stellar dynamical isothermal spheres. The resulting models, which resemble King models, constitute a new sequence of physically well-motivated spherical equilibrium configurations of finite mass, and give nice fits to pre-core collapse globular cluster data.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9601123,
title = {Finite Mass Isothermal Spheres and the Structure of Globular Clusters},
author = {Jes Madsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9601123},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, 3 ps figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS