The Restless Universe Applications of Gravitational N-Body Dynamics to Planetary Stellar and Galactic Systems

Steves, Bonnie

Solar system dynamics N-body simulations of the Solar System, planet formation, and galaxy clusters, On the Trojan problem, Ideal resonance and Melnikov’s theorem, The Yarkovsky effect in the dynamics of the Solar System, Are science and celestial mechanics deterministic? Henri Poincaré, philosopher and scientist, Stellar kinematics and dynamics, Regularization methods for the N-body problem, Escape in Hill’s problem, Galactic dynamics, Galaxies: from kinematics to dynamics, Non-integrable galactic dynamics, Evolution of galaxies due to self-excitation, Cosmology - Large scale structure dynamics, Dynamical methods for reconstructing the large scale galaxy density and velocity fields, Cosmological numerical simulations: past, present and future, Gravitational N-body simulation of large-scale cosmic structure, General dynamics, Periodic orbits of the planar N-body problem with equal masses and all bodies on the same path, Central configurations revisited, Surfaces of separation in the Caledonian Symmetrical Double Binary Four Body Problem, The Fast Lyapunov Indicator, Determination of chaotic attractors in short discrete time series, Non-integrability in gravitational and cosmological models, Index