N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues to the construction of realistic stellar dynamical models of elliptical galaxies. Such simulations confirm and quantify the qualitative expectation that rapid collapse of a self-gravitating collisionless system, initially cool and significantly far from equilibrium, leads to incomplete relaxation. In this paper we revisit the problem, by comparing the detailed properties of a family of distribution functions derived from statistical mechanics arguments to those of the products of collisionless collapse found in N-body simulations
Violent relaxation process of spherical stellar systems is examined by numerical simulations of shel...
Theory and simulations are used to study collisionless relaxation of a gravitational N-body system. ...
Theory and simulations are used to study collisionless relaxation of a gravitational N-body system. ...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues to the construction of rea...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
Recently we have found that a family of models of partially relaxed, anisotropic stellar systems, in...
[Abridged] Recently we have found that a family of models of partially relaxed, anisotropic stellar ...
Violent relaxation process of spherical stellar systems is examined by numerical simulations of shel...
Theory and simulations are used to study collisionless relaxation of a gravitational N-body system. ...
Theory and simulations are used to study collisionless relaxation of a gravitational N-body system. ...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues to the construction of rea...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues for the construction of re...
Recently we have found that a family of models of partially relaxed, anisotropic stellar systems, in...
[Abridged] Recently we have found that a family of models of partially relaxed, anisotropic stellar ...
Violent relaxation process of spherical stellar systems is examined by numerical simulations of shel...
Theory and simulations are used to study collisionless relaxation of a gravitational N-body system. ...
Theory and simulations are used to study collisionless relaxation of a gravitational N-body system. ...