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Nonlinear dynamics and chaos in astrophysics : a festschrift in honor of George Contopoulos / edited by J.R. Buchler, S.T. Gottesman, and H.E. Kandrup.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 867.
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 867
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaotic behavior in systems--Congresses.
- Chaotic behavior in systems.
- Astrophysics--Congresses.
- Astrophysics.
- Dynamics--Congresses.
- Dynamics.
- Nonlinear theories--Congresses.
- Nonlinear theories.
- Contopoulos, George, 1928-.
- Contopoulos, George.
- Nonlinear Dynamics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nonlinear Dynamics.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 337 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Academy of Sciences, 1998.
- Contents:
- Laudation / Heinrich Eichhorn 1
- From Quasars to Extraordinary N-body Problems / D. Lynden-Bell 3
- Dynamical Spectra and the Onset of Chaos / G. Contopoulos 14
- Orbital Complexity, Short-Time Lyapunov Exponents, and Phase Space Transport in Time-Independent Hamiltonian Systems / Christos Siopis, Barbara L. Eckstein, Henry E. Kandrup 41
- Bifurcations of Periodic Orbits in Axisymmetric Scalefree Potentials / C. Hunter, Balsa Terzic, Amy M. Burns, Donald Porchia, Chris Zink 61
- Irregular Period-Tripling Bifurcations in Axisymmetric Scalefree Potentials / Balsa Terzic 85
- Negative Energy Modes and Gravitational Instability of Interpenetrating Fluids / A.R.R. Casti, P.J. Morrison, E.A. Spiegel 93
- Invariants and Labels in Lie-Poisson Systems / Jean-Luc Thiffeault, P.J. Morrison 109
- From Jupiter's Great Red Spot to the Structure of Galaxies: Statistical Mechanics of Two-Dimensional Vortices and Stellar Systems / Pierre-Henri Chavanis 120
- N-Body Simulations of Galaxies and Groups of Galaxies with the Marseille GRAPE Systems / E. Athanassoula 141
- On Nonlinear Dynamics of Three-Dimensional Astrophysical Disks / A.M. Fridman, O.V. Khoruzhii 156
- Satellites as Probes of the Masses of Spiral Galaxies / Lance K. Erickson, S.T. Gottesman, James H. Hunter, Jr 173
- Chaos in the Centers of Galaxies / Isaac Shlosman, Clayton Heller, Ingo Berentzen 200
- Counterrotating Galaxies and Accretion Disks / R.V.E. Lovelace 217
- Global Spiral Patterns in Galaxies: Complexity and Simplicity / C.C. Lin 229
- Candidates for Abundance Gradients at Intermediate Red-Shift Clusters / Renato A. Dupke 253
- Scaling Regimes in the Distribution of Galaxies / G. Murante, A. Provenzale, E.A. Spiegel, R. Thieberger 258
- Recent Progress in the Study of One-Dimensional Gravitating Systems / Bruce N. Miller, Kenneth Yawn, Paige Youngkins 268
- Modeling the Time Variability of Black Hole Candidates / Demosthenes Kazanas, Xin-Min Hua 283
- Stellar Oscillons / O.M. Umurhan, L. Tao, E.A. Spiegel 298
- Chaos in Cosmological Hamiltonians / Henry E. Kandrup, John Drury 306
- Phase Space Transport in Noisy Hamiltonian Systems / Henry E. Kandrup 320
- Papers / George Contopoulos 321.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1573311626
- 1573311634
- OCLC:
- 40397008
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