Dynamics of galaxies, star clusters and planetary systems

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Direct Links to topics of R. Spurzem , A. Just

Supervisor: R. Spurzem

• S1. Taken Chatterjee, S., Rodriguez, C. L., Rasio, F. A., 2016b, Binary Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters: Exploring the Theoretical Uncertainties,   ArXiv e-prints, full text link ; supplementary material (optional) on gravitational wave detection: Rodriguez et al. 2016a and Rodriguez et al. 2015, Physical Review Letters, Volume 115, Issue 5, id.051101, 
• S2. Taken Miholics, M., Webb, J. J., Sills, A., 2016, The dynamical evolution of accreted star clusters in the Milky Way,   Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,  456,  240, 
• S3. Miholics, M., Webb, J. J., Sills, A., 2015, The dynamics of multiple populations in the globular cluster NGC 6362,   Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,  454,  2166, 
• S4. Giersz, M., Leigh, N., Hypki, A., Luetzgendorf, N., Askar, A.,  2015,  MOCCA code for star cluster simulations - IV. A new scenario for intermediate mass black hole formation in globular clusters,   Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,  454,  3150  
• S5. Taken Leigh, N. W. C., Giersz, M., Marks, M., Webb, J. J., Hypki, A., Heinke, C. O., Kroupa, P., Sills, A.,  2015,  The state of globular clusters at birth - II. Primordial binaries,   Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,  446,  226, also  may include Paper I,
• S6. Renzini, A., D'Antona, F., Cassisi, S., King, I. R., Milone, A. P., et al., 2015,  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,  454,  4197:  The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters - V. Constraints on formation scenarios; This subject can be combined with a simulation paper, e.g. http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2016MNRAS.457.4507H
   or http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2015MNRAS.452..924K
• S7. Rivera-Sandoval, L. E., van den Berg, M., Heinke, C. O., Cohn, H. N., et al., 2015,  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,  453,  2707:  Discovery of near-ultraviolet counterparts to millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae
• S8. Zheng, X., Kouwenhoven, M. B. N., Wang, L.,  2015,  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,  453,  2759:  The dynamical fate of planetary systems in young star clusters
• S9. Wang, L., Kouwenhoven, M. B. N., Zheng, X., Church, R. P., Davies, M. B.,  2015,  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,  449,  3543:  Close encounters involving free-floating planets in star clusters

Supervisor: A. Just

• J1. Taken Vertical kinematics of the thick disc, Hattori & Gilmore (MNRAS 454, 649, 2015)
• J2. Kinematics of symmetric Galactic longitudes to probe the spiral arms of the Milky Way with Gaia, Antoja et al. (astroph 1602.07687, 2016)
• J3. Hubble Space Telescope proper motion (HSTPROMO) catalogs of Galactic globular clusters. II. + III., Watkins et al. (ApJ 803, 29, 2015 + ApJ 812, 149, 2015)
• J4. Kinematics and Velocity Ellipsoid of the Solar Neighborhood White Dwarfs, Elsanhoury et al, (RMxAA 51, 199, 2015, full text at astroph 1503.03595)
• J5. Taken On the Formation of Galactic Thick Disks, Minchev et al. (ApJ 804, 9, 2015)
• J6. Taken A fully cosmological model of a Monoceros-like ring, Gomez et al. (MNRAS, 456, 2779, 2016)
• J7. Taken The Milky Way's rotation curve out to 100 kpc and its constraint on the Galactic mass distribution, Huang et al. (astroph 1604.01216, 2016)
• J8. Do open star clusters evolve toward energy equipartition? Spera et al. (astroph 1604.03943, 2016)

Übungsgruppen

• Gruppe A (Spurzem/Just)
  6 Teilnehmer/innen
  Mönchhofstr. 12-14 / ARI SR, Mi 14:15 - 16:00