Introduction to Stellar Dynamics

Part I. Potential Theory: 1. The gravitational field; 2. The gravitational potential; 3. Tidal fields; 4. The two-body problem; 5. Quasi-circular orbits; Part II. Systems of Particles: 6. The N-body problem and the virial theorem; 7. Relaxation 1: Two-body relaxation; 8. Relaxation 2: Dynamical friction; Part III. Collisionless Systems: 9. The collisionless Boltzmann equation and the Jeans theorem; 10. The Jeans equations and the Tensor virial theorem; 11. Projected dynamics; 12. Modeling techniques 1: Phase-space approach; 13. Modeling techniques 2: Moments approach; 14. Modeling techniques 3: from ? to f. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.

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