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    Stellar dynamics is the branch of astrophysics which describes in a statistical way the collective motions of stars subject to their mutual gravity. The...
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    Astrophysics (redirect from Stellar physics)
    theoretical astrophysicists include Solar System formation and evolution; stellar dynamics and evolution; galaxy formation and evolution; magnetohydrodynamics;...
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  • Relativistic dynamics, a combination of relativistic and quantum concepts Stellar dynamics, a description of the collective motion of stars System dynamics, the...
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  • A stellar collision is the coming together of two stars caused by stellar dynamics within a star cluster, or by the orbital decay of a binary star due...
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    black hole at the Galactic Center. Stellar kinematics is related to but distinct from the subject of stellar dynamics, which involves the theoretical study...
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    contributing to the contemporary understanding of stellar structure, white dwarfs, stellar dynamics, stochastic process, radiative transfer, the quantum...
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    Astronomy (redirect from Stellar astronomy)
    cosmic evolution. Phenomena modeled by theoretical astronomers include: stellar dynamics and evolution galaxy formation large-scale distribution of matter in...
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  • NEMO (Not Everybody Must Observe) is a toolkit for stellar dynamics. At its core it manipulates an n-body system (snapshot), but can also derive or compute...
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  • Chandrasekhar limit (category Stellar dynamics)
    Chandrasekhar chose to move on, leaving the study of stellar structure to focus on stellar dynamics.: 51  In 1983 in recognition for his work, Chandrasekhar...
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    In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. Electromagnetic radiation from the star is...
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  • Chandrasekhar's white dwarf equation (category Stellar dynamics)
    Subrahmanyan, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. An introduction to the study of stellar structure. Vol. 2. Chapter 11 Courier Corporation, 1958. Davis, Harold...
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  • cluster Stellar collision Stellar core Stellar coronae Stellar density Stellar disk Stellar distance Stellar drift Stellar dynamics Stellar engine Stellar engineering...
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  • Australian open source electricity system model NEMO (Stellar Dynamics Toolbox), a toolbox for stellar dynamics modeling Neutrino Ettore Majorana Observatory...
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    Jack Gilbert Hills (born 15 May 1943) is a theorist of stellar dynamics. He worked on the Oort cloud; the inner part of it, the Hills cloud, was named...
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    Emden–Chandrasekhar equation (category Stellar dynamics)
    Subrahmanyan, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. An introduction to the study of stellar structure. Vol. 2. Courier Corporation, 1958. Chandrasekhar, S., and Gordon...
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  • of the pioneers of Russian and world Stellar dynamics. T. A. Agekian found two evolutionary sequences of stellar systems: nearly spherical and strongly...
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  • Chandrasekhar virial equations (category Stellar dynamics)
    In astrophysics, the Chandrasekhar virial equations are a hierarchy of moment equations of the Euler equations, developed by the Indian American astrophysicist...
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    Volume 3 (1910) 436–524. James Hopwood Jeans, Problems of cosmogony and stellar dynamics, Chapter III: Ellipsoidal configurations of equilibrium, 1919. S. Chandrasekhar...
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  • Star lifting (redirect from Stellar uplift)
    significantly shorter lifespan than small ones. Current theories of stellar dynamics also suggest that there is very little mixing between the bulk of a...
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  • at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests are in stellar dynamics. Heggie has conducted pioneering theoretical research on the topic...
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  • Chandrasekhar potential energy tensor (category Stellar dynamics)
    Press, 1969. Binney, James; Tremaine, Scott (30 October 2011). Galactic Dynamics (Second ed.). Princeton University Press. pp. 59–60. ISBN 978-1400828722...
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    most complicated structures awaiting its explanation on the basis of stellar dynamics." The Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies (RC3) measured a...
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  • ("Eddington luminosity"), see Celotti, Miller & Sciama 1999, observations of stellar dynamics in the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, cf. Schödel et al. 2003...
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  • Schönberg–Chandrasekhar limit (category Stellar dynamics)
    In stellar astrophysics, the Schönberg–Chandrasekhar limit is the maximum mass of a non-fusing, isothermal core that can support an enclosing envelope...
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    Quantum electrodynamics Relativistic dynamics Stellar dynamics System dynamics Thermodynamics Vehicle dynamics Econophysics Electromagnetism Electricity Electrostatic...
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  • Chandrasekhar's variational principle (category Stellar dynamics)
    Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability. Courier Corporation, 2013. Binney, James, and Scott Tremaine. Galactic dynamics. Princeton university press, 2011....
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  • Dynamical friction (category Stellar dynamics)
    mass black holes.[citation needed] Globular clusters orbiting through the stellar field of a galaxy experience dynamic friction. This drag force causes the...
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  • Gurzadyan-Savvidy relaxation (category Stellar dynamics)
    explain the relaxation over time of the dynamics of N-body gravitating systems such as star clusters and galaxies. Stellar systems observed in the Universe –...
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    Stellar evolution is the process by which a star changes over the course of its lifetime and how it can lead to the creation of a new star. Depending...
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  • Lindblad resonance (category Stellar dynamics)
    Astrophysics: Gas dynamics. University Science Books. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-935702-65-1. Murray, C.D., and S.F. Dermott 1999, Solar System Dynamics (Cambridge:...
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