Distribution of stars perpendicular to the plane of the Galaxy

dc.contributor.author	Chatterjee, S
dc.date.accessioned	2008-06-27T09:34:03Z
dc.date.available	2008-06-27T09:34:03Z
dc.date.issued	1991-12
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 269 - 280	en
dc.identifier.issn	0250-6335
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/2523
dc.description.abstract	A detailed calculation is given of the distribution of mass above the Galactic plane for any arbitrary mass distribution and velocity distribution. It is shown that an analytic expression can be found for the gravitational field in terms of confluence hypergeometric functions. The behavior of the dispersion of the distance from the Galactic disk for star of given mass is shown to behave as a harmonic oscillator, except for stars of lighter masses	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Indian Academy of Sciences	en
dc.relation.uri	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991JApA...12..269C	en
dc.subject	Gravitational Fields	en
dc.subject	Milky Way Galaxy	en
dc.subject	Star Distribution	en
dc.subject	Stellar Mass	en
dc.subject	Vertical Distribution	en
dc.subject	Computational Astrophysics	en
dc.subject	Distribution Functions	en
dc.subject	Poisson Equation	en
dc.title	Distribution of stars perpendicular to the plane of the Galaxy	en
dc.type	Article	en