Physical review letters
Breaking Boundaries: Extending the Orbit-Averaged Fokker-Planck Equation Inside the Loss Cone.
Luca Broggi
Published: 202510.1103/nyjy-xjp3
Abstract
In this Letter, we present a new formulation of loss cone theory as a reaction-diffusion system, which accounts for loss cone events through a sink term and can be orbit averaged. It can recover the standard approach based on boundary conditions, and…
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