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Stellar Dynamics

Stellar Dynamics is the branch of astrophysics that studies the collective motions and gravitational interactions of large systems of stars, treated as point masses, using statistical and dynamical methods to describe their evolution under their mutual gravity.

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On the variation of the initial mass function

Pavel Kroupa · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2001 · 7.5K citations · Full text

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Smoothed particle hydrodynamics: theory and application to non-spherical stars

R. A. Gingold, J. J. Monaghan · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1977 · 7.1K citations

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A numerical approach to the testing of the fission hypothesis

L. B. Lucy · The Astronomical Journal · 1977 · 6.1K citations

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On Massive Neutron Cores

J. Robert Oppenheimer, G. M. Volkoff · Physical Review · 1939 · 4K citations

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MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA): PLANETS, OSCILLATIONS, ROTATION, AND MASSIVE STARS

Bill Paxton, Matteo Cantiello, Phil Arras et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2013 · 3.5K citations · Full text

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  1. TR
    T. R. Bedding

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    64 publications · 7.4K citations

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  2. FA
    Frederic A. Rasio

    Northwestern University, United States

    46 publications · 7.9K citations

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  3. JC
    J. Christensen‐Dalsgaard

    Aarhus University, Denmark

    60 publications · 6.6K citations

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  4. SP
    Simon Portegies Zwart

    Leiden University, Netherlands

    51 publications · 4.2K citations

    36

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  5. PK
    Pavel Kroupa

    University of Bonn, Germany

    57 publications · 12K citations

    36

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Institutions

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    104 h-index

    1.6K publications

    129.6K citations

  2. Université Paris Cité

    Paris, France

    81 h-index

    660 publications

    70.8K citations

  3. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    78 h-index

    357 publications

    39.7K citations

  4. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    70 h-index

    458 publications

    41K citations

  5. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    68 h-index

    254 publications

    20.8K citations

  6. Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

    Paris, France

    67 h-index

    332 publications

    39K citations

  7. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    67 h-index

    268 publications

    29.3K citations

  8. Space Telescope Science Institute

    Baltimore, United States

    66 h-index

    183 publications

    23.7K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 1.5K publications · 135.8K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    1.5K publications · 125.7K citations

    144

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    863 publications · 54.4K citations

    116

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  5. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 203 publications · 20.9K citations

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