Chaos in Astronomy [electronic resource] : Conference 2007 / edited by G. Contopoulos, P. A. Patsis.

Galactic Dynamics -- Ordered and Chaotic Orbits in Spiral Galaxies -- Order and Chaos in Spiral Galaxies Seen through their Morphology -- The flow through the arms of normal and barred-spiral galaxies -- Ansae in Barred Galaxies, Observations and Simulations -- Orbital Structure in Barred Galaxies and the Role of Chaos -- Chaos in Galaxies -- Boxy/peanut bulges : formation, evolution and properties -- Invariant manifolds as building blocks for the formation of spiral arms and rings in barred galaxies -- Secular instabilities of stellar systems: slow mode approach -- Stellar Velocity Distribution in Galactic Disks -- Dynamical study of 2D and 3D barred galaxy models -- Chaos in the Mergers of Galaxies -- Hamiltonian Normal Forms and Galactic Potentials -- Local Phase Space - Shaped by Chaos? -- Barred Galaxies: an Observers Perspective -- Invariant manifolds and the spiral arms of barred galaxies -- Collisional N-body simulations and time-dependent orbital complexity -- Resonances in Galactic and Circumstellar Disks -- Regular and Chaotic motion in elliptical galaxies -- Orbital distributions and self-consistency in elliptical galaxies -- The Connection between Orbits and Isophotal Shape in Elliptical Galaxies -- Gas orbits in a spiral potential -- The structure of the phase space in galactic potentials of three degrees of freedom -- Regular and chaotic orbits in narrow 2D bar models -- The coalescence of invariant manifolds in barred-spiral galaxies -- Celestial Mechanics -- Chaotic Dynamics in Planetary Systems -- Routes to Chaos in Resonant Extrasolar Planetary Systems -- Prometheus and Pandora, the champions of dynamical chaos -- Planets in Multiple Star Systems: A Symplectic Approach -- Stabilized Chaos in The Sitnikov Problem -- Fundamental concepts and methods -- Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics - An Approach to Complexity -- Absolute versus Relative Motion in Mechanics -- Far fields, from electrodynamics to gravitation, and the dark matter problem -- Distribution functions for galaxies using quadratic programming -- Chaos Analysis Using the Patterns Method. -- On the topology of regions of 3-d particle motions in annular configurations of n bodies with a central post-newtonian potential. -- The Average Power-Law growth of deviation vector and Tsallis entropy -- Global dynamics of coupled standard maps -- Other Astronomical Systems -- The Chaotic Light Curves of Accreting Black Holes -- 3D Accretion Discs Dynamics: Numerical simulations -- Growth of Density Fluctuations at the Time of Leptogenesis -- Fully developed turbulence in accretion discs of binary stars: turbulent viscosity coefficient and power spectrum. -- Solar and Stellar Active Regions -- Chaos and Self-Organization in Solar Flares - A Critical Analysis of the Present Approach -- Charged particles acceleration through Reconnecting Current Sheets in Solar Flares -- The perturbed Photometric-Magnetic dynamical model for the sunspot evolution -- The dynamics of non-symmetrically collapsing stars -- Cosmic Order out of Primordial Chaos: a tribute to Nikos Voglis -- Cosmological Inflation: A Personal Perspective.

The conference "Chaos in Astronomy" was held in Athens on 17-20 Sep 2007. International leaders in the field addressed the topics Chaos in large N-body systems and in galactic dynamics Chaos in solar system dynamics Statistical mechanics of systems with regular and chaotic orbits Chaos in the formation of large-scale structure in the Universe Fundamental concepts, methods and tools. The book contains carefully edited refereed contributions. It serves as a reference to researchers and will give an overview to students and newcomers entering any field of dynamical astronomy.

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