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astro-ph2005★ 3 cited
Gravitational Scattering
Douglas C. Heggie
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 whi…
astro-ph2005★ 4 cited
The Classical Gravitational N-Body Problem
Douglas C. Heggie
Let a number, N, of particles interact classically through Newton's Laws of Motion and Newton's inverse square Law of Gravitation. The resulting equations of motion provide an appr…
astro-ph2005★ 36 cited
The M/L ratio of massive young clusters
C. M. Boily, A. Lacon, S. Deiters +1
We point out a strong time-evolution of the mass-to-light conversion factor ηcommonly used to estimate masses of dense star clusters from observed cluster radii and stellar velocit…