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"This textbook is part of a series based on the curriculum for astronomy graduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU). In this curriculum, first-year graduate students take a five credit-hour course "Observed Properties of Astronomical Systems." This is followed by six courses, each of two three credit-hours: "Atomic and Radiative Processes in Astrophysics," "Stellar Structure and Evolution," "Dynamics," "Cosmology," "Numerical and Statistical Methods in Astrophysics," and "The Interstellar Medium and the Intergalactic Medium." The philosophy of the OSU graduate program, however, is best encapsulated in the two credit-hour course "Order of Magnitude Astrophysics," which is offered every year to first- and second-year students"--
List of contents
Preface; 1. Newtonian Dynamics; 2. Three-body Systems; 3. Resonances and Chaos; 4. Tides; 5. Exoplanetary Systems; 6. Many-Body Systems; 7. Orbits; 8. Collisionless Stellar Systems; 9. Encounters Between Stellar Systems; 10. Relaxation and Collisional Systems; Appendix A: Constants and Units; Further Reading; References; Figure Credits; Index.
About the author
Barbara Ryden received her Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. After postdocs at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, she joined the astronomy faculty at The Ohio State University, where she is a full professor. She has thirty years of experience in teaching, at levels ranging from introductory undergraduate courses to advanced graduate seminars. She won the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for the first edition of her textbook Introduction to Cosmology (2016), and is co-author of the books Foundations of Astrophysics (2020), Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium (2021) and Stellar Structure and Evolution (2023).
