Stellar Orbits: Lindblad Resonances and Collisionless Boltzmann Equation

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Series explores the dynamics of stars and galaxies, covering topics such as stellar orbits, collisionless systems, and the Milky Way's structures.

Explores stellar orbits in rotating potentials, focusing on surfaces of section, integrals of motion, and stability around Lagrange points.

Explores stellar orbits in spherical potentials, including Keplerian orbits, nearly circular orbits, and the Miyamoto-Nagai potential.

Covers the self-consistent description of a plasma and conservation principles.

Explores the impact of smooth mass distributions on stellar systems and the accuracy of galaxy modeling.

Explores continuous random variables, density functions, joint variables, independence, and conditional densities.

Explores the evolution of the distribution function describing particles in phase space.

Explores the Collisionless Boltzmann equation, distribution functions, Jeans theorems, resonances, chaotic orbits, and equilibria in stellar systems.

Covers fluid quantities, moments of kinetic equation, two-fluid model, and plasma turbulence simulation.

Explores the formation and evolution of galaxies, galactic dynamics, stellar orbits, and equilibria of collisionless systems in astrophysics.