A Tensor Virial-Equation for Stellar Dynamics
Open Access
- 1 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Vol. 139 (2) , 135-139
- https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/139.2.135
Abstract
A tensor virial-equation is derived for a system consisting of equal mass-points, appropriately for stellar dynamics, by starting with the Liouville equation governing an ensemble of such systems in the six N -dimensional phase space.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: