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On relaxation processes in collisionless mergers
Monica Valluri, Ileana M. Vass, Stelios Kazantzidis +2
We analyze N-body simulations of halo mergers to investigate the mechanisms responsible for driving mixing in phase-space and the evolution to dynamical equilibrium. We focus on mi…
Supermassive Black Hole Binaries as Galactic Blenders
Henry E. Kandrup, Ioannis V. Sideris, Balsa Terzic +1
This paper focuses on the dynamical implications of close supermassive black hole binaries both as an example of resonant phase mixing and as a potential explanation of inversions…
Chaos, ergodicity, and the thermodynamics of lower-dimensional Hamiltonian systems
Henry E. Kandrup, Ioannis V. Sideris, C. L. Bohn
This paper uses the assumptions of ergodicity and a microcanonical distribution to compute estimates of the largest Lyapunov exponents in lower-dimensional Hamiltonian systems. Tha…