On the consequences of the gravothermal catastrophe
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This article is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.The article was published on 1980-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 215 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gravitational collapse.read more
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Young Massive Star Clusters
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Statistical mechanics of gravitating systems
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Intermediate and Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals -- Astrophysics, Science Applications and Detection using LISA
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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the current state of knowledge and an outline of some of the outstanding questions that still need to be addressed is provided, based on discussions at a workshop hosted by the Albert Einstein Institute in Golm, Germany.
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Negative specific heat in astronomy, physics and chemistry
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review progress in the understanding of gravitational thermodynamics and pinpoint the error in the proof that all systems have positive specific heat and say when it can occur and discuss the development of the thermal runaway in both the gravothermal catastrophe and its inverse.
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Phase transitions in self-gravitating systems
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