Gravitational Scattering
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We review some modern applications of the theory of few-body encounters between binaries and single stars. Then we focus on a new treatment of adiabatic encounters, in a regime which is of importance in encounters between a star and a planetary system in a star cluster.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0512504,
title = {Gravitational Scattering},
author = {Douglas C. Heggie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0512504},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Few-Body Problem, Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, C. Flynn, ed. Small correction to Fig.1