Barbara Ryden

Celestial and Stellar Dynamics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108819015
• ISBN-10: 110881901X
• Artikelnr.: 72105748

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.