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Galaxies and Chaos

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Editors:
  1. George Contopoulos
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  2. Nikos Voglis
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 626)

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Table of contents (36 chapters)

  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
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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.

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