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Dynamical friction in constant density cores: a failure of the Chandrasekhar formula
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Using analytic calculations and N-body simulations we show that in constant density (harmonic) cores, sinking satellites undergo an initial phase of very rapid (super-Chandrasekhar) dynamical friction, after which they experience no dynamical friction at all. For density profiles with a central power law profile, ρ ∝ r -α, the infalling satellite heats the background and causes α to decrease. For α < 0.5 initially, the satellite generates a small central constant density core and stalls as...
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- Journal:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Volume:
- 373
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 1451-1460
- Publication date:
- 2006-12-21
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1365-2966
- ISSN:
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0035-8711
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- English
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pubs:160355
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160355
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- 2012-12-19
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- 2006
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