Moving Planets Around

Javier Roa, Adrian S Hamers, Maxwell X Cai , Nathan W C Leigh

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MIT Press
17 November 2020

Popular astronomy & space

An introduction to the laws of celestial mechanics and a step-by-step guide to developing software for direct use in astrophysics research.

An introduction to the laws of celestial mechanics and a step-by-step guide to developing software for direct use in astrophysics research.

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.

By: Javier Roa, Adrian S Hamers, Maxwell X Cai, Nathan W C Leigh
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780262539340
ISBN 10: 0262539349
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 17 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Javier Roa is a Navigation Engineer in the Solar Systems Dynamics Group at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Lab. 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, andResearch Scientist at the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

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