Chaos in Astronomy: Conference 2007

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Ordered and Chaotic Orbits in Spiral Galaxies....Pages 1-20
Order and Chaos in Spiral Galaxies Seen through their Morphology....Pages 23-32
The flow through the arms of normal and barred-spiral galaxies....Pages 33-44
Ansae in Barred Galaxies, Observations and Simulations....Pages 45-52
Orbital Structure in Barred Galaxies and the Role of Chaos....Pages 53-61
Chaos in Galaxies....Pages 63-76
Boxy/peanut bulges : formation, evolution and properties....Pages 77-83
Invariant manifolds as building blocks for the formation of spiral arms and rings in barred galaxies....Pages 85-92
Secular instabilities of stellar systems: slow mode approach....Pages 93-104
Stellar Velocity Distribution in Galactic Disks....Pages 105-113
Dynamical study of 2D and 3D barred galaxy models....Pages 115-122
Chaos in the Mergers of Galaxies....Pages 123-135
Hamiltonian Normal Forms and Galactic Potentials....Pages 137-149
Local Phase Space - Shaped by Chaos?....Pages 151-158
Barred Galaxies: an Observer’s Perspective....Pages 159-172
Invariant manifolds and the spiral arms of barred galaxies....Pages 173-182
Collisional N-body simulations and time-dependent orbital complexity....Pages 183-190
Resonances in Galactic and Circumstellar Disks....Pages 191-202
Regular and Chaotic motion in elliptical galaxies....Pages 203-214
Orbital distributions and self-consistency in elliptical galaxies....Pages 215-224
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Connection between Orbits and Isophotal Shape in Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 225-229
Gas orbits in a spiral potential....Pages 231-234
The structure of the phase space in galactic potentials of three degrees of freedom....Pages 235-239
Regular and chaotic orbits in narrow 2D bar models....Pages 241-245
The coalescence of invariant manifolds in barred-spiral galaxies....Pages 247-251
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Chaotic Dynamics in Planetary Systems....Pages 255-268
Routes to Chaos in Resonant Extrasolar Planetary Systems....Pages 269-283
Prometheus and Pandora, the champions of dynamical chaos....Pages 285-292
Planets in Multiple Star Systems: A Symplectic Approach....Pages 293-300
Stabilized Chaos in The Sitnikov Problem....Pages 301-305
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Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics - An Approach to Complexity....Pages 309-318
Absolute versus Relative Motion in Mechanics....Pages 319-324
Far fields, from electrodynamics to gravitation, and the dark matter problem....Pages 325-335
Distribution functions for galaxies using quadratic programming....Pages 337-346
Chaos Analysis Using the Patterns Method.....Pages 347-355
On the topology of regions of 3-d particle motions in annular configurations of n bodies with a central post-newtonian potential.....Pages 357-361
The Average Power-Law growth of deviation vector and Tsallis entropy....Pages 363-366
Global dynamics of coupled standard maps....Pages 367-371
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Chaotic Light Curves of Accreting Black Holes....Pages 375-385
3D Accretion Discs Dynamics: Numerical simulations....Pages 387-398
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Growth of Density Fluctuations at the Time of Leptogenesis....Pages 399-402
Fully developed turbulence in accretion discs of binary stars: turbulent viscosity coefficient and power spectrum.....Pages 403-421
Solar and Stellar Active Regions....Pages 423-433
Chaos and Self-Organization in Solar Flares - A Critical Analysis of the Present Approach....Pages 435-448
Charged particles’ acceleration through Reconnecting Current Sheets in Solar Flares....Pages 449-453
The perturbed Photometric-Magnetic dynamical model for the sunspot evolution....Pages 455-459
The dynamics of non-symmetrically collapsing stars....Pages 461-465
Cosmic Order out of Primordial Chaos: a tribute to Nikos Voglis....Pages 467-483
Cosmological Inflation: A Personal Perspective....Pages 485-496