Ebook: Two-component model of a spherical stellar system

M., 1981. — 33 p. — (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute. I.E. Tamm Departament of Theoretical Physics. Space Science Preprint №143).As a generalization of the widely used King's model for a spherical stellar system containing stars of identical masses, a two-component model of an equilibrium stellar system consisting of stars of two different masses is built proceeding from a proper generalization of te distribution function. In such a system, the principle of thermal equilibrium, generally speaking, does not hold, i.e. equipartition of mean kinetic energy between light fnd heavy stars is absent.