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The Cambridge N-Body Lectures

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Sverre J. Aarseth

    1. University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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  2. Christopher A. Tout

    1. University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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  3. Rosemary A. Mardling

    1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Victoria 3800

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  • Provides thorough background knowledge of the subject
  • Introduces the latest developments in N-body computational astrophysics
  • First book in a series of volumes published under auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society in “The Royal Astronomical Society Series. A series on Astronomy & Astrophysics, Geophysics, Solar and Solar-terrestrial Physics, and Planetary Sciences”

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 760)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Direct N-Body Codes

    • Sverre J. Aarseth
    Pages 1-30

  3. Regular Algorithms for the Few-Body Problem

    • Seppo Mikkola
    Pages 31-58

  4. Resonance, Chaos and Stability: The Three-Body Problem in Astrophysics

    • Rosemary A. Mardling
    Pages 59-96

  5. Fokker–planck Treatment of Collisional Stellar Dynamics

    • Marc Freitag
    Pages 97-121

  6. Monte-Carlo Models of Collisional Stellar Systems

    • Marc Freitag
    Pages 123-158

  7. Particle-Mesh Technique and Superbox

    • Michael Fellhauer
    Pages 159-169

  8. Dynamical Friction

    • Michael Fellhauer
    Pages 171-179

  9. Initial Conditions for Star Clusters

    • Pavel Kroupa
    Pages 181-259

  10. Stellar Evolution

    • Christopher A. Tout
    Pages 261-282

  11. N-Body Stellar Evolution

    • Jarrod R. Hurley
    Pages 283-296

  12. Binary Stars

    • Christopher A. Tout
    Pages 297-319

  13. N - Body Binary Evolution

    • Jarrod R. Hurley
    Pages 321-332

  14. The Workings of a Stellar Evolution Code

    • Ross Church
    Pages 333-345

  15. Realistic N - Body Simulations of Globular Clusters

    • A. Dougal Mackey
    Pages 347-376

  16. Parallelization, Special Hardware and Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Direct N - Body Simulations

    • Rainer Spurzem, Ingo Berentzen, Peter Berczik, David Merritt, Pau Amaro-Seoane, Stefan Harfst et al.
    Pages 377-389

  17. Educational N - Body Websites

    • Francesco Cancelliere, Vicki Johnson, Sverre Aarseth
    Pages 391-397

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 399-402
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About this book

Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society, this volume contains a set of extensive school tested lectures, with the aim to give a coherent and thorough background knowledge of the subject and to introduce the latest developments in N-body computational astrophysics.

The topics cover a wide range from the classical few-body problem with discussions of resonance, chaos and stability to realistic modelling of star clusters as well as descriptions of codes, algorithms and special hardware for N-body simulations.

This collection of topics, related to the gravitational N-body problem, will prove useful to both students and researchers in years to come.

1)     Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society.


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Sverre J. Aarseth, Christopher A. Tout

  • School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Victoria 3800

    Rosemary A. Mardling

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