Dynamical friction in a mean field approximation

DOI10.1007/BF00653499zbMath0541.70016MaRDI QIDQ794461

Henry E. Kandrup

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Liouville equationMaxwell distributionfriction forceaveraged trajectoriesbinary form for the Hamiltonian of the field particlesChandrasekhar frictionneglected initial correlationproduct of N one-particle distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Celestial mechanics (70F15) Statistical astronomy (85A35)

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Cites Work

• On the statistical mechanics of gravitational plasmas
• The Statistics of the Gravitational Field Arising from a Random Distribution of Stars. I. The Speed of Fluctuations.
• Dynamical Friction. I. General Considerations: the Coefficient of Dynamical Friction.

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