The gravitational collapse of triaxial protoclusters

DOI10.1093/MNRAS/220.1.189zbMath0616.76054OpenAlexW1981879502MaRDI QIDQ4725942

Alan Heavens, John Andrew Peacock, James G. More

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/220.1.189

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational collapseclustersrelaxation processesanisotropic collapsecollapse of ellipsoidscollapse of pancakescollapsing prolate spheroidsformation of a caustic surfaceisotropic configurationsnon-rotating, homogeneous, triaxial ellipsoidsthree-dimensional Gaussian noise

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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