Erratum: Undamped oscillations of homogeneous collisionless stellar systems

Collisionless Relaxation of Stellar Systems

The objective of the work summarised here has been to exploit and extend ideas from plasma physics and accelerator dynamics to formulate a unified description of collisionless relaxation that views violent relaxation, Landau damping, and phase mixing as (manifestations of) a single phenomenon. This approach embraces the fact that the collisionless Boltzmann equation (CBE), the basic object of t...

Stellar Oscillations Network Group

Stellar Oscillations Network Group (SONG) is an initiative aimed at designing and building a network of 1m-class telescopes dedicated to asteroseismology and planet hunting. SONG will have 8 identical telescope nodes each equipped with a high-resolution spectrograph and an iodine cell for obtaining precision radial velocities and a CCD camera for guiding and imaging purposes. The main asterosei...

Stochastic Excitation of Stellar Oscillations

Excitation of solar oscillations is attribued to turbulent motions in the solar convective zone. It is also currently believed that oscillations of low massive stars (M < 2 M⊙) which possess an upper convective zone are stochastically excited by turbulent convection in their outer layers. A recent theoretical work (Samadi and Goupil, 2001; Samadi et al., 2001) supplements and reinforces this th...

Dynamical stability of collisionless stellar systems and barotropic stars: the nonlinear Antonov first law

We complete previous investigations on the dynamical stability of barotropic stars and collisionless stellar systems. A barotropic star that minimizes the energy functional at fixed mass is a nonlinearly dynamically stable stationary solution of the Euler-Poisson system. Formally, this minimization problem is similar to a condition of “canonical stability” in thermodynamics. A stellar system th...

Lecture Notes on Stellar Oscillations