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Mass loss and dynamical friction on the Fornax dSph galaxy in the Milky Way potential
Pierfrancesco Di Cintio, Giuliano Iorio, Carlo Nipoti +1
We study the interplay between mass-loss and dynamical friction (DF) on the orbital decay of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the potential of the Milky Way (MW). Using a simp…
A disturbance in the force. How force fluctuations hinder dynamical friction and induce core stalling
Pierfrancesco Di Cintio, Bruno Marcos
Dynamical friction is an important phenomena in stellar dynamics resulting in the slowing down of a test particle upon many two-body scatters with background particles. Chandrasekh…
The search for the lost attractor
Mario Pasquato, Syphax Haddad, Pierfrancesco Di Cintio +8
N-body systems characterized by inverse square attractive forces may display a self similar collapse known as the gravo-thermal catastrophe. In star clusters, collapse is halted by…
Taking apart the dynamical clock. Fat-tailed dynamical kicks shape the blue-straggler star bimodality
Mario Pasquato, Pierfrancesco Di Cintio
In globular clusters, blue straggler stars are heavier than the average star, so dynamical friction strongly affects them. The radial distribution of BSS, normalized to a reference…
Non-thermal states in models of filaments: a dynamical study
Pierfrancesco Di Cintio, Shamik Gupta, Lapo Casetti
We study the origin of the non-thermal profiles observed in filamentary structures in galactic molecular clouds by means of numerical dynamical simulations. We find that such profi…