Chaos in Astronomy

1. Galactic Dynamics

2. Ordered and Chaotic Orbits in Spiral Galaxies
G. Contopoulos

3. Order and Chaos in Spiral Galaxies Seen through their Morphology
P. Grosbøl

4. The flow through the arms of normal and barred-spiral galaxies
P. A. Patsis

5. Ansae in Barred Galaxies, Observations and Simulations
I. Martinez-Valpuesta

6. Orbital Structure in Barred Galaxies and the Role of Chaos
M. Harsoula, G. Contopoulos, C. Kalapotharakos

7. Chaos in Galaxies
D. Pfenniger

8. Boxy/peanut bulges : formation, evolution and properties
E. Athanassoula, I. Martinez-Valpuesta

9. Invariant manifolds as building blocks for the formation of spiral arms and rings in barred galaxies
M. Romero-Gómez, E. Athanassoula, J. J. Masdemont, C. García-Gómez

10. Secular instabilities of stellar systems: slow mode approach
E. V. Polyachenko, V. L. Polyachenko, I. G. Shukhman

11. Stellar Velocity Distribution in Galactic Disks
Ch Theis, E Vorobyov

12. Dynamical study of 2D and 3D barred galaxy models
T Manos, E Athanassoula

13. Chaos in the Mergers of Galaxies
P.O. Vandervoort

14. Hamiltonian Normal Forms and Galactic Potentials
G. Pucacco

15. Local Phase Space - Shaped by Chaos?
D. Chakrabarty

16. Barred Galaxies: an Observer’s Perspective
Dimitri Gadotti

17. Invariant manifolds and the spiral arms of barred galaxies
C. Efthymiopoulos, P. Tsoutsis, C. Kalapotharakos , G. Contopoulos

18. Collisional N-body simulations and time-dependent orbital complexity
N.T. Faber

19. Resonances in Galactic and Circumstellar Disks
A.C. Quillen

20. Regular and Chaotic motion in elliptical galaxies
J.C. Muzzio

21. Orbital distributions and self-consistency in elliptical galaxies
C. Kalapotharakos

22. The Connection between Orbits and Isophotal Shape in Elliptical Galaxies
R. Jesseit, T. Naab, A. Burkert

23. Gas orbits in a spiral potential
G. C. Gómez, M. A. Martos

24. The structure of the phase space in galactic potentials of three degrees of freedom
M. Katsanikas, P. A. Patsis, L. Zachilas

25. Regular and chaotic orbits in narrow 2D bar models
D. E. Kaufmann, P. A. Patsis

26. The coalescence of invariant manifolds in barred-spiral galaxies
P. Tsoutsis, C. Efthymiopoulos

2. Celestial Mechanics

27. Chaotic Dynamics in Planetary Systems
R. Dvorak

28. Routes to Chaos in Resonant Extrasolar Planetary Systems
J. D. Hadjidemetriou, G. Voyatzis

29. Prometheus and Pandora, the champions of dynamical chaos
I. I. Shevchenko

30. Planets in Multiple Star Systems: A Symplectic Approach
P. E. Verrier, N. W. Evans

31. Stabilized Chaos in The Sitnikov Problem
A. R. Dzhanoev, A. Loskutov, J. E. Howard, M. A. F. Sánju

3. Fundamental concepts and methods

32. Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics - An Approach to Complexity
C. Tsallis

33. Absolute versus Relative Motion in Mechanics
D. Lynden-Bell

34. Far fields, from electrodynamics to gravitation, and the dark matter problem
A. Carati, S. L. Cacciatori, L. Galgani

35. Distribution functions for galaxies using quadratic programming
V. Dury, S. De Rijcke, V. Debattista, H. Dejonghe

36. Chaos Analysis Using the Patterns Method.
I. Sideris

37. On the topology of regions of 3-d particle motions in annular configurations of n bodies with a central post-newtonian potential.
T. Kalvouridis

38. The Average Power-Law growth of deviation vector and Tsallis entropy
G. Lukes-Gerakopoulos, N. Voglis, C. Efthymiopoulos

39. Global dynamics of coupled standard maps
T. Manos, Ch. Skokos, T. Bountis

4. Other Astronomical Systems

40. The Chaotic Light Curves of Accreting Black Holes
D. Kazanas

41. 3D Accretion Discs Dynamics: Numerical simulations
D. V. Bisikalo

42. Growth of Density Fluctuations at the Time of Leptogenesis
E. A. Paschos

43. Fully developed turbulence in accretion discs of binary stars: turbulent viscosity coefficient and power spectrum.
A. M. Fridman, D. V. Bisikalo, A. A. Boyarchuk, L. Pustil’nik, Y. M. Torgashin

44. Solar and Stellar Active Regions
Loukas Vlahos

45. Chaos and Self-Organization in Solar Flares - A Critical Analysis of the Present Approach
L. Pustil’nik

46. Charged particles’ acceleration through Reconnecting Current Sheets in Solar Flares
C. Gontikakis, C. Efthymiopoulos, A. Anastasiadis

47. The perturbed Photometric-Magnetic dynamical model for the sunspot evolution
G. Livadiotis, X. Moussas

48. The dynamics of non-symmetrically collapsing stars
G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan, O. Y. Tsupko

49. Cosmic Order out of Primordial Chaos: a tribute to Nikos Voglis
B. Jones, R. van de Weygaert

50. Cosmological Inflation: A Personal Perspective
D. Kazanas

Keywords: Physics