The restless universe : applications of gravitational n-body dynamics to planetary, stellar and galactic systems : proceedings of the fifty-fourth Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, Blair Atholl, 23 July - 5 August 2000

The Restless Universe: Applications of Gravitational N-Body Dynamics to Planetary Stellar and Galactic Systems stimulates the cross-fertilization of ideas, methods, and applications among the different communities who work in the gravitational N-body problem arena, across diverse fields of astrophysics. The chapters and topics cover three broad the N-body Simulations Of The Solar System, Planet Formation, And Galaxy Clusters / Thomas Quinn -- On The Trojan Problem / Rudolf Dvorak And Elke Pilat-lohinger -- Ideal Resonance And Melnikov's Theorem / Philip J. Message -- The Yarkovsky Effect In The Dynamics Of The Solar System / David Vokrouhlicky -- Are Science And Celestial Mechanics Deterministic? Henri Poincare, Philosopher And Scientist / Christian Marchal -- Regularization Methods For The N-body Problem / Sverre J. Aarseth -- Escape In Hill's Problem / Douglas C. Heggie -- Galaxies: From Kinematics To Dynamics / Michael R. Merrifield -- Non-integrable Galactic Dynamics / David Merritt -- Evolution Of Galaxies Due To Self-excitation / Martin D. Weinberg -- Dynamical Methods For Reconstructing The Large Scale Galaxy Density And Velocity Fields / Martin Hendry -- Cosmological Numerical Simulations: Past, Present And Future / Gustavo Yepes -- Gravitational N-body Simulation Of Large-scale Cosmic Structure / H. M. P. Couchman -- Periodic Orbits Of The Planar N-body Problem With Equal Masses And All Bodies On The Same Path / Carles Simo -- Central Configurations Revisited / Jorg Waldvogel -- Surfaces Of Separation In The Caledonian Symmetrical Double Binary Four Body Problem / Bonnie A. Steves And Archie E. Roy -- The Fast Lyapunov Indicator / Claude Froeschle, Massimiliano Guzzo And Elena Lega -- Determination Of Chaotic Attractors In Short Discrete Time Series / Alessandra Celletti, Claude Froeschle And Igor V. Tetko / [et Al.] -- Non-integrability In Gravitational And Cosmological Models / Andrzej J. Maciejewski. Edited By B.a. Steves, A.j. Maciejewski. A Nato Advanced Study Institute. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Brings together ideas, methods and applications from the different communities who work in the gravitational N-body problem. The chapters and topics cover three broad themes: the dynamics of the solar system; the dynamics of galaxies and star clusters; and the large-scale structure of the universe