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astro-ph2008★ 66 cited
Calculation of the Local Standard of Rest from 20,574 Local Stars in the New Hipparcos Reduction with Known Radial Velocities
Charles Francis, Erik Anderson
Context. An accurate estimate of the local standard of rest (LSR) is required to determine key parameters used in approximate galactic mass models and to understand Galactic struct…
math.PR2006
Periodic attractors of random truncator maps
Ted Theodosopoulos, Robert Boyer
This paper introduces the \textit{truncator} map as a dynamical system on the space of configurations of an interacting particle system. We represent the symbolic dynamics generate…