Dynamics and Evolution of Galactic Nuclei
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Accretion (astrophysics)
Accretion disk
Active galactic nucleus
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Andromeda Galaxy
Angular momentum
Apsis
Astronomer
Astrophysics
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Binary star
Box orbit
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Celestial mechanics
Chronology of the universe
Circular orbit
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Dwarf elliptical galaxy
Dynamical friction
Elliptical galaxy
Elongation (astronomy)
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Equations of motion
Galactic astronomy
Galactic Center
Galaxy cluster
Galaxy merger
Galaxy rotation curve
Globular cluster
Gravitational potential
Gravitational redshift
Gravitational wave
Gravitational-wave observatory
Gravity
Highly elliptical orbit
Hubble Space Telescope
Intermediate-mass black hole
Interstellar medium
Interstellar travel
Kepler orbit
Kepler's laws of planetary motion
Language_English
Luminosity function (astronomy)
Main sequence
Mass distribution
Mass segregation (astronomy)
Neutron star
Nuclear density
Orbit
Orbital decay
Orbital eccentricity
Orbital elements
Orbital period
Orbital plane (astronomy)
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Phase space
Planet
Precession
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Quasar
Radio galaxy
Reverberation mapping
Semi-major and semi-minor axes
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Solar mass
Spin-orbit interaction
Spiral galaxy
Star cluster
Star formation
Stellar collision
Stellar density
Stellar dynamics
Stellar evolution
Stellar kinematics
Stellar mass
Supermassive black hole
Supernova
Triangulum Galaxy
Velocity dispersion
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- ISBN 9780691158600
- Weight: 936g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2013
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Deep within galaxies like the Milky Way, astronomers have found a fascinating legacy of Einstein's general theory of relativity: supermassive black holes. Connected to the evolution of the galaxies that contain these black holes, galactic nuclei are the sites of uniquely energetic events, including quasars, stellar tidal disruptions, and the generation of gravitational waves. This textbook is the first comprehensive introduction to dynamical processes occurring in the vicinity of supermassive black holes in their galactic environment. Filling a critical gap, it is an authoritative resource for astrophysics and physics graduate students, and researchers focusing on galactic nuclei, the astrophysics of massive black holes, galactic dynamics, and gravitational wave detection. It is an ideal text for an advanced graduate-level course on galactic nuclei and as supplementary reading in graduate-level courses on high-energy astrophysics and galactic dynamics. David Merritt summarizes the theoretical work of the last three decades on the evolution of galactic nuclei, the formation of massive black holes, and the interaction between black holes and stars.
He explores in depth such important topics as observations of galactic nuclei, dynamical models, weighing black holes, motion near supermassive black holes, evolution of nuclei due to gravitational encounters, loss cone theory, and binary supermassive black holes. Self-contained and up-to-date, the textbook includes a summary of the current literature and previously unpublished work by the author. For researchers working on active galactic nuclei, galaxy evolution, and the generation of gravitational waves, this book will be an essential resource.
David Merritt is professor of physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
