Moving Planets Around: An Introduction to N-Body Simulations Applied to Exoplanetary Systems
- ISBN-10
- 0262539349
- ISBN-13
- 9780262539340
- Category
- Extrasolar planets
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-09
- Authors
- Javier Roa, Adrian S. Hamers, Nathan W. C. Leigh
Description
"Moving Planets Around covers the laws of celestial mechanics and gravity in the Newtonian limit, with a focus on the time evolution of planetary systems ranging from our own Solar System to the myriad extrasolar planetary systems we now know exist in the universe"--
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