Timeline for Gravothermal catastrophe: looking for simple explanation
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| Jun 6, 2023 at 5:44 | comment | added | Kevin Kostlan | The sheer depth of steller gravity wells allows such a negative heat capacity to exist in the first place. The sun has an escape velocity of 615 km/s.~50 km/s is a typical escape velocity from a globular cluster. Thats a 150:1 energy ratio! | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 22:35 | vote | accept | NeutronStar | ||
| Apr 15, 2016 at 18:52 | comment | added | Logan R. Kearsley | Yup. That's correct. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 14:36 | comment | added | NeutronStar | So, in a globular cluster, it's the core that is the high-temperature gravitational system and the outer region that is the cold-temperature sink (which itself will get colder as energy is added from the core)? | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 7:39 | history | answered | Logan R. Kearsley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |