Dynamics and Evolution of Galactic Nuclei (eBook)

David Merritt (Autor)

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2013
544 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4612-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Deep within galaxies like the Milky Way, astronomers have found a fascinating legacy of Einstein's general theory of relativity: supermassive black holes. Connected to the evolution of the galaxies that contain these black holes, galactic nuclei are the sites of uniquely energetic events, including quasars, stellar tidal disruptions, and the generation of gravitational waves. This textbook is the first comprehensive introduction to dynamical processes occurring in the vicinity of supermassive black holes in their galactic environment. Filling a critical gap, it is an authoritative resource for astrophysics and physics graduate students, and researchers focusing on galactic nuclei, the astrophysics of massive black holes, galactic dynamics, and gravitational wave detection. It is an ideal text for an advanced graduate-level course on galactic nuclei and as supplementary reading in graduate-level courses on high-energy astrophysics and galactic dynamics. David Merritt summarizes the theoretical work of the last three decades on the evolution of galactic nuclei, the formation of massive black holes, and the interaction between black holes and stars. He explores in depth such important topics as observations of galactic nuclei, dynamical models, weighing black holes, motion near supermassive black holes, evolution of nuclei due to gravitational encounters, loss cone theory, and binary supermassive black holes. Self-contained and up-to-date, the textbook includes a summary of the current literature and previously unpublished work by the author. For researchers working on active galactic nuclei, galaxy evolution, and the generation of gravitational waves, this book will be an essential resource.

Autor

David Merritt is professor of physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology..

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.7.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series in Astrophysics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series in Astrophysics
• Zusatzinfo: 5 halftones. 136 line illus. 6 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: acceleration • Accretion (astrophysics) • accretion disk • Active Galactic Nucleus • age of the universe • Andromeda Galaxy • Angular momentum • Approximation • Apsis • Astrometry • Astronomer • Astronomy • astrophysics • binary star • Box orbit • Celestial mechanics • Chandra X-Ray Observatory • Chronology of the universe • Circular Orbit • Classical and Quantum Gravity • Disc galaxy • Dwarf elliptical galaxy • Dwarf Galaxy • dynamical friction • Elliptical galaxy • Elliptic orbit • Elongation (astronomy) • Equations of motion • exoplanet • Galactic Astronomy • Galactic Center • Galaxy cluster • Galaxy merger • Galaxy rotation curve • Globular Cluster • Gravitational collapse • gravitational potential • Gravitational redshift • Gravitational Wave • Gravitational-wave observatory • Gravity • Highly elliptical orbit • Hubble space telescope • Interferometry • Intermediate-mass black hole • Interstellar Medium • Interstellar Travel • Johannes Kepler • Jupiter • Kepler orbit • Kepler problem • Kepler's laws of planetary motion • Luminosity function (astronomy) • Main sequence • mass distribution • Mass segregation (astronomy) • Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution • milky way • Molecular cloud • N-body simulation • neutron star • Nuclear density • Orbit • orbital decay • Orbital eccentricity • Orbital elements • Orbital period • Orbital plane (astronomy) • Particle physics • Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) • Phase space • Planet • Plasma (physics) • precession • Quasar • Radiation pressure • Radio Galaxy • relaxation time • Reverberation mapping • Rotation period • Semi-major and semi-minor axes • Solar mass • spacecraft • Spin–orbit interaction • Spin (physics) • Spiral galaxy • star cluster • star formation • Stellar collision • Stellar density • Stellar dynamics • stellar evolution • Stellar kinematics • Stellar mass • Supermassive Black Hole • Supernova • Synchrotron radiation • Triangulum Galaxy • Velocity dispersion • X-ray binary
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4612-9 / 1400846129
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4612-2 / 9781400846122