STRUCTURE FORMATION IN THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL GRAVITATIONAL GAS

Authors
MURIEL A MICIANOCARINO A CARINO R
Citation
A. Muriel et al., STRUCTURE FORMATION IN THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL GRAVITATIONAL GAS, Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin), 334(2), 1998, pp. 746-749
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin) → ACNP
ISSN journal
00046361
Volume
334
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
746 - 749
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-6361(1998)334:2<746:SFITOG>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
We adopt a new result in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to foll ow the time evolution of the density of an exploding one-dimensional g ravitational gas. We show analytically that the resulting structure fo rmation is a natural consequence of many-body physics.