Galaxies and Chaos

Order and Chaos in Astronomy....Pages 3-29
Critical Ergos Curves and Chaos at Corotation....Pages 30-43
Stellar Dynamics and Molecular Dynamics: Possible Analogies....Pages 44-55
Waves Derived from Galactic Orbits. Solitons and Breathers....Pages 56-74
Discrete Breathers in Nonlinear Lattices: A Review and Recent Results....Pages 75-90
Chaos or Order in Double Barred Galaxies?....Pages 91-100
Jeans Solutions for Triaxial Galaxies....Pages 101-108
Nonlinear Response of the Interstellar Gas Flow to Galactic Spiral Density Waves....Pages 109-116
The Level of Chaos in N-Body Models of Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 117-125
Low Frequency Power Spectra and Classification of Hamiltonian Trajectories....Pages 126-136
Disk-Crossing Orbits....Pages 137-153
Chaos and Chaotic Phase Mixing in Galaxy Evolution and Charged Particle Beams....Pages 154-168
Motions of a Black Hole near the Center of a Galaxy....Pages 169-184
Weak Homology of Bright Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 185-200
Observing Chaos in Disk Galaxies....Pages 201-212
Observational Determination of the Gravitational Potential and Pattern Speed in Strongly Barred Galaxies....Pages 213-222
Observational Manifestation of Chaos in Grand Design Spiral Galaxies....Pages 223-234
Quarter-Turn Spirals in Galaxies....Pages 235-242
Dynamics of Galaxies: From Observations to Distribution Functions....Pages 243-262
Arp 158: A Study of the HI....Pages 263-270
Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies....Pages 271-278
A SAURON View of Galaxies....Pages 279-285
Photometric Properties of Karachentsev’s Mixed Pairs of Galaxies....Pages 286-293
Spline Histogram Method for Reconstruction of Probability Density Functions of Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 294-301
Stars Close to the Massive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way....Pages 302-312
Angular Momentum Redistribution and the Evolution and Morphology of Bars....Pages 313-326
Major Mergers and the Origin of Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 327-339
Dynamical Evolution of Galaxies: Supercomputer N -Body Simulations....Pages 340-347
Formation of the Halo Stellar Population in Spiral and Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 348-356
Model of Ejection of Matter from Dense Stellar Cluster and Chaotic Motion of Gravitating Shells....Pages 357-364
Direct vs Merger Mechanism Forming Counterrotating Galaxies....Pages 365-379
Pitch Angle of Spiral Galaxies as Viewed from Global Instabilities of Flat Stellar Disks....Pages 380-386
Collisionless Evaporation from Cluster Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 387-394
Chaos in Solar System Dynamics....Pages 395-411
Dynamics of Extrasolar Planetary Systems: 2/1 Resonant Motion....Pages 412-432
The "Third" Integral in the Restricted Three-Body Problem Revisited....Pages 433-441