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Gravitational N-Body Problem

Proceedings of the Iau Colloquium No. 10 Held in Cambridge, England August 12–15, 1970

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  • © 1972

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Editors:
  1. Myron Lecar

    1. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, USA

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 31)

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Table of contents (42 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Collisional Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Analytic Treatments

      1. Collisional Processes in Stellar Systems
        • Ira H. Gilbert
        Pages 5-12
      2. Polarization Clouds and Dynamical Friction
        • Agris J. Kalnajs
        Pages 13-17
      3. A Certain Discontinuous Markov Process in Stellar Dynamics
        • Werner Tscharnuter
        Pages 18-21
      4. Relaxation Times in Strictly Disk Systems
        • George B. Rybicki
        Pages 22-26

    3. Numerical Experiments

      1. Numerical Experiments on the <i>N</i>-Body Problem
        • S. J. Aarseth
        Pages 29-43
      2. Monte Carlo Models of Star Clusters
        • M. Hénon
        Pages 44-59
      3. A Fluid-Dynamical Method for Computing the Evolution of Star Clusters
        • Richard B. Larson
        Pages 60-61
      4. On the Lifetimes of Galactic Clusters
        • R. Wielen
        Pages 62-70
      5. Disruption of Star Clusters through Passing Interstellar Clouds Investigated by Numerical Experiments
        • P. Bouvier, G. Janin
        Pages 71-72
      6. Numerical Experiments on the Escape from Non-Isolated Clusters and the Formation of Multiple Stars
        • Avram Hayli
        Pages 73-87
      7. Binary Evolution in Stellar Systems
        • S. J. Aarseth
        Pages 88-98
      8. On the Dissolution Time of a Class of Binary Systems
        • Carlos Cruz-González, Arcadio Poveda
        Pages 99-113
      9. On the Reproducibility of Run-Away Stars Formed in Collapsing Clusters
        • Christine Allen, Arcadio Poveda
        Pages 114-123
      10. Numerical Experiments on Pair Correlations and on ‘Thermodynamics’
        • R. H. Miller
        Pages 124-130
      11. A Numerical Experiment on Relaxation Times in Stellar Dynamics
        • Myron Lecar, Carlos Cruz-González
        Pages 131-135
      12. Recent Developments of Integrating the Gravitational Problem of <i>N</i>-Bodies
        • Victor Szebehely, Dale G. Bettis
        Pages 136-147
      13. A Multi-Particle Regularisation Technique
        • D. C. Heggie
        Pages 148-152
      14. The Use of Integrals in Numerical Integrations of the <i>N</i>-Body Problem
        • Paul E. Nacozy
        Pages 153-164
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About this book

This volume contains the proceedings of the third IAU conference on the Gravita­ tional N-Body Problem. The first IAU conference [IJ, six years ago, was motivated by the renaissance in Celestial Mechanics following the launching of artificial earth satellites, and was an attempt to bring to bear on the problems of Stellar Dynamics the sophisticated analytical techniques of Celestial Mechanics. That meeting was an outgrowth of the 'Summer Institutes in Celestial Mechanics' initiated by Dirk Brouwer. By the second IAU conference [2J, our interest had been captured by the attempts to simulate stellar systems on the computer. Computer simulation is now an essential part of stellar dynamics; journals of computational physics have started in the United Kingdom and in the United States and symposia on computer simulation of many-body problems have become a perennial event [3,4, 5]. Although our early hopes that the computer would 'solve' our problem have been tempered by experience, some techniques of computer simulation have now matured through five years of testing and use. A working description of the six most popular methods is appended to this volume. During the past three years, stellar dynamicists have followed closely the develop­ ments in the related field of Plasma Physics. The contexts of Plasma and Stellar Physics are deceptively similar; at first, results from Plasma Physics were bodily transferred to stellar systems by 'changing the sign of the coupling'. We are more sophisticated and more skeptical now.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, USA

    Myron Lecar

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gravitational N-Body Problem

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Iau Colloquium No. 10 Held in Cambridge, England August 12–15, 1970

  • Editors: Myron Lecar

  • Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2870-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1972

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0203-6Due: 30 September 1972

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-2872-1Published: 14 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2870-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0067-0057

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 441

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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