Galaxies and Chaos

1. Front Matter

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2. Order and Chaos in Astronomy

   • George Contopoulos

   Pages 3-29

3. Critical Ergos Curves and Chaos at Corotation

   • Donald Lynden-Bell, Jaideep M. Barot

   Pages 30-43

4. Stellar Dynamics and Molecular Dynamics: Possible Analogies

   • Andrea Carati, Luigi Galgani

   Pages 44-55

5. Waves Derived from Galactic Orbits. Solitons and Breathers

   • Nikos Voglis

   Pages 56-74

6. Discrete Breathers in Nonlinear Lattices: A Review and Recent Results

   • Tassos Bountis, Jeroen M. Bergamin

   Pages 75-90

7. Chaos or Order in Double Barred Galaxies?

   • Witold Maciejewski

   Pages 91-100

8. Jeans Solutions for Triaxial Galaxies

   • Glenn van de Ven, Chris Hunter, Ellen Verolme, Tim de Zeeuw

   Pages 101-108

9. Nonlinear Response of the Interstellar Gas Flow to Galactic Spiral Density Waves

   • Edward Liverts, Michael Mond

   Pages 109-116

10. The Level of Chaos in N-Body Models of Elliptical Galaxies

    • Nikos Voglis, Costas Kalapotharakos, Iioannis Stavropoulos, Christos Efthymiopoulos

    Pages 117-125

11. Low Frequency Power Spectra and Classification of Hamiltonian Trajectories

    • George Voyatzis

    Pages 126-136

12. Disk-Crossing Orbits

    • Chris Hunter

    Pages 137-153

13. Chaos and Chaotic Phase Mixing in Galaxy Evolution and Charged Particle Beams

    • Henry E. Kandrup

    Pages 154-168

14. Motions of a Black Hole near the Center of a Galaxy

    • Richard H. Miller

    Pages 169-184

15. Weak Homology of Bright Elliptical Galaxies

    • Giuseppe Bertin

    Pages 185-200

16. Observing Chaos in Disk Galaxies

    • Preben Grosbøl

    Pages 201-212

17. Observational Determination of the Gravitational Potential and Pattern Speed in Strongly Barred Galaxies

    • Per A. B. Lindblad, Per Olof Lindblad

    Pages 213-222

18. Observational Manifestation of Chaos in Grand Design Spiral Galaxies

    • Alexei M. Fridman, Roald Z. Sagdeev, Oleg V. Khoruzii, Evgenii V. Polyachenko

    Pages 223-234

19. Quarter-Turn Spirals in Galaxies

    • Evgenii Polyachenko

    Pages 235-242

20. Dynamics of Galaxies: From Observations to Distribution Functions

    • Herwig Dejonghe, Veronique De Bruyne

    Pages 243-262

Galaxies and Chaos examines the application of tools developed for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems to Galactic Dynamics and Galaxy Formation, as well as to related issues in Celestial Mechanics. The contributions collected in this volume have emerged from selected presentations at a workshop on this topic and key chapters have been suitably expanded in order to be accessible to nonspecialist researchers and postgraduate students wishing to enter this exciting field of research.

• Celestial mechanics
• Galaxy
• dynamical astronomy
• galactic dynamics
• galaxy formation

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