Moving Planets Around: An Introduction to N-Body Simulations Applied to Exoplanetary Systems
Language: English
Published by The MIT Press, 2020
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- Title
- Moving Planets Around: An Introduction to N-Body Simulations Applied to Exoplanetary Systems
- Author
- Javier Roa, Adrian Hamers
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262539349
- ISBN 13
- 9780262539340
This book offers both an introduction to the laws of celestial mechanics and a step-by-step guide to developing software for direct use in astrophysics research. It bridges the gap between conventional textbooks, which present a rigorous and exhaustive exposition of theoretical concepts, and applying the theory to tackle real experiments. The text is written engagingly in dialogue form, presenting the research journey of the fictional Alice, Bob, and Professor Starmover. Moving Planets Around not only educates students on the laws of Newtonian gravity, it also provides all that they need to start writing their own software, from scratch, for simulating the dynamical evolution of planets and exoplanets, stars, or other heavenly bodies.
The first half of the book develops a fully functional N-body integrator, using state-of-the art integration techniques, explaining both the techniques and the reasons that they are useful. The second half of the book focuses on using an advanced integration scheme to conduct real research, leading students in an investigation of the long-term dynamical stability of extrasolar circumbinary planets. At the end of the journey, students will be ready to design, conduct, and publish peer-review quality research.
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About the Author
Adrian S. Hamers is Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany.
Maxwell X. Cai is an advisor on artificial intelligence at the SURF Cooperative (Dutch National Supercomputing Center), and Research Associate at Leiden University.
Nathan W. C. Leigh is Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at the Universidad de Concepcion, Chile, and Research Scientist at the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
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