Chaos in orbits due to disk crossings

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1045, Issue , 2005, Pages 120-138

  Hunter, C ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Celestial mechanics; Galaxies; Galaxy; Halo; Kinematics and dynamics; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ASTRONOMY; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DYNAMICS; GRAVITY; KINEMATICS;

EID: 23644455830     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1350.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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