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Chaos in Astrophysics (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
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Chaos in Astrophysics (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
Series: NATO Science Series C, 161
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The per iod of an oscillator tells us much about its structure. J.
J. Thomson's deduction that a particle with the e/rn of an electron
was in the atom is perhaps the most stunning instance. For us, the
deduction of the mean density of a star from its oscillation period
is another important example. What then can we deduce about an
oscillator that is not periodic? If there are several frequencies
or if the behavior is chaotic, may we not hope to learn even more
delicate vital statistics about its workings? The recent progress
in the theory of dynamical systems, particularly in the elucidat
ion of the nature of chaos, makes it seem reasonable to ask this
now. This is an account of some of the happenings of a workshop at
which this question was raised and discussed. ~iTe were inc0rested
in seeing ways in which the present understanding of chaos might
guide astrophysical modelling and the interpretation of
observations. But we did not try to conceal that we were also
interested in chaos itself, and that made for a pleasant rapport
between the chaoticists and astrophysicists at the meeting. We have
several introductory papers on chaos in these proceedings,
particularly on the analysis of data from systems that may be
suspected of chaotic behavior. The papers of Geisel, Grassberger
and Guckenheimer introduce the ways of characterizing chaos and
Perdang illustrates how some of these ideas may be put into
practice in explicit cases.
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