Gravothermal Catastrophe and Negative Specific Heat of Self-Gravitating Systems
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- 1 July 1978
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Progress of Theoretical Physics
- Vol. 60 (1) , 123-135
- https://doi.org/10.1143/ptp.60.123
Abstract
Thermodynamics of self-gravitating gas system, which is enclosed by an adiabatic spherical wall, is discussed. When the temperature distribution is iKeywords
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