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astro-ph.GA2020★ 4 cited
Noise and waves: a unified kinetic theory for stellar systems
Chris Hamilton, Tobias Heinemann
The traditional Chandrasekhar picture of the slow relaxation of stellar systems assumes that stars' orbits are only modified by occasional, uncorrelated, two-body flyby encounters…
astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited
Secular dynamics of binaries in stellar clusters -- III. Doubly-averaged dynamics in the presence of general relativistic precession
Chris Hamilton, Roman R. Rafikov
Secular evolution of binaries driven by an external (tidal) potential is a classic astrophysical problem. Tidal perturbations can arise due to an external point mass, as in the Lid…
astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited
A simple, heuristic derivation of the Balescu-Lenard kinetic equation for stellar systems
Chris Hamilton
The unshielded nature of gravity means that stellar systems are inherently inhomogeneous. As a result, stars do not move in straight lines. This obvious fact severely complicates t…