Collisions in self-gravitating clouds of planetesimals

DOI10.1007/BF00931669zbMath0527.70012MaRDI QIDQ3042475

K. A. Hämeen-Anttila

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Moon and the Planets (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

perturbationbimodalityrandom fluctuationsnon-gravitational forcesSaturn's ringsarbitrary gravitational fieldcollisionally induced changes in orbitsdeviations from cylindrical symmetryimpact velocitiesinfluence of gravitational encountersnon-zero size of particlesorbital elements of jetstreamspartially elastic collisions for planetesimalsself-gravitating cloudsstationary, rotationally symmetric disktheory of Keplerian systemsunconventional choice of statistical quantities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Statistical astronomy (85A35)

Related Items (4)

Collisional evolution of rotating, non-identical particles ⋮ Statistical approach to the theory of circumstellar discs ⋮ Generalized theory of impacts in particulate systems ⋮ Collisional theory of non-identical particles in a gravitational field

Cites Work

• An improved and generalized theory for the collisional evolution of Keplerian systems
• Quasi-equilibrium in collisional systems
• Starn's rings and bimodality of Keplerian systems
• Self-gravitation in Saturn's rings
• Dynamical Friction. I. General Considerations: the Coefficient of Dynamical Friction.

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