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Celestial and Stellar Dynamics - Barbara Ryden

Celestial and Stellar Dynamics

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Buch | Hardcover
250 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83643-2 (ISBN)
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This textbook for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students studying astronomy covers the field of celestial dynamics, with applications to exoplanetary systems and our own Solar System. It also covers the field of stellar dynamics, with applications to larger systems such as galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
Although the field of celestial dynamics – the application of Newtonian dynamics to systems with a relatively small number of celestial bodies – is centuries old, it has been reinvigorated by the discovery of thousands of exoplanetary systems orbiting other stars. This textbook uses the properties of planetary systems, including own Solar System, to illustrate the rich variety of behavior permitted by Newton's law of gravity. The textbook then expands its view to examine stellar dynamics – the study of systems containing a very large number of stars or other celestial bodies. The different techniques used for celestial dynamics and stellar dynamics are compared and contrasted. However, throughout the text, emphasis is placed on the underlying physics that applies on scales as small as the Earth–Moon system and as large as a cluster of galaxies. It is ideal for a 1-semester astrophysical dynamics course for upper-level undergraduates and starting graduate students.

Barbara Ryden received her Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. After postdocs at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, she joined the astronomy faculty at The Ohio State University, where she is a full professor. She has thirty years of experience in teaching, at levels ranging from introductory undergraduate courses to advanced graduate seminars. She won the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for the first edition of her textbook Introduction to Cosmology (2016), and is co-author of the books Foundations of Astrophysics (2020), Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium (2021) and Stellar Structure and Evolution (2023).

Preface; 1. Newtonian Dynamics; 2. Three-body Systems; 3. Resonances and Chaos; 4. Tides; 5. Exoplanetary Systems; 6. Many-Body Systems; 7. Orbits; 8. Collisionless Stellar Systems; 9. Encounters Between Stellar Systems; 10. Relaxation and Collisional Systems; Appendix A: Constants and Units; Further Reading; References; Figure Credits; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.1.2025
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10 1-108-83643-7 / 1108836437
ISBN-13 978-1-108-83643-2 / 9781108836432
Zustand Neuware
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