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[Spreadsheet] Models are invaluable tools for strategic planning. Models help key decision makers develop a shared conceptual understanding of complex decisions, identify sensitivity factors and test management scenarios. Different…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Paula Jennings

I review recent progress from $N$-body simulations in our understanding of the secular evolution of isolated disk galaxies. I describe some of the recent controversies in the field which have been commonly attributed to numerics. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor P. Debattista

I first comment on some recent advances in computing equipment for CPU-intensive numerical simulations, and on possible developments in the near future. I then discuss some particularly important and yet unsolved problems in dynamics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Athanassoula

Stellar clusters are important for astrophysics in many ways, for instance as optimal tracers of the Galactic populations to which they belong or as one of the best test bench for stellar evolutionary models. Gaia DR1, with TGAS, is just…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Angela Bragaglia

Oscillations detected on the solar surface provide a unique possibility for investigations of the interior properties of a star. Through major observational efforts, including extensive observations from space, as well as development of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Christensen-Dalsgaard

Advances in extragalactic astronomy have prompted the development of increasingly realistic models which aim to describe the formation and evolution of galaxies. We review the philosophy behind one such technique, called semi-analytic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. M. Baugh , A. J. Benson , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , C. Lacey

We use the rotation curve from Gaia data release (DR) 3 to estimate the mass of the Milky Way. We consider an Einasto density profile to model the dark matter component. We extrapolate and obtain a dynamical mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Yongjun Jiao , Francois Hammer , Haifeng Wang , Jianling Wang , Yanbin Yang

The GAIA satellite will provide unprecedented phase-space information for our Galaxy and enable a new era of Galactic dynamics. We may soon see successful realizations of Galactoseismology, i.e., inferring the characteristics of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Sukanya Chakrabarti

After a recall of fundamental concepts used in galactic dynamics, we review observational facts as well as results of orbit theory and numerical simulations which suggest long-term evolution of galaxies. Dynamical interactions between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Louis Martinet

Observations of the Sun and solar-type stars continue to reveal phenomena whose understanding is very likely to require a nonlinear framework. Here we shall concentrate on two such phenomena, namely the grand minima type behaviour observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Reza Tavakol , Eurico Covas

Peculiar velocities are the motions of galaxies due to the gravitational influence of large-scale structure, and thus are an important cosmological probe of the underlying matter density field. In recent years the number of surveys designed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Ryan J. Turner

Functional data analysis, which models data as realizations of random functions over a continuum, has emerged as a useful tool for time series data. Often, the goal is to infer the dynamic connections (or time-varying conditional…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-10 Chunshan Liu , Daniel R. Kowal , James Doss-Gollin , Marina Vannucci

As an illustration of the value of historical measures we present some examples of the dynamical evolution of multiple systems resembling the Orion Trapezium. We constructed models by combining carefully selected historical measures of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-02 Christine Allen , Leonardo J. Sanchez , Alex Ruelas-Mayorga , Rafael Costero

Many applications produce multiway data of exceedingly high dimension. Modeling such multi-way data is important in multichannel signal and video processing where sensors produce multi-indexed data, e.g. over spatial, frequency, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-06 Yu Wang , Zeyu Sun , Dogyoon Song , Alfred Hero

Studying our Galaxy, the Milky Way (MW), gives us a close-up view of the interplay between cosmology, dark matter, and galaxy formation. In the next decade our understanding of the MW's dynamics, stellar populations, and structure will…

The advancements in the state of the art of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) brought by diffusion models can be highly beneficial in novel contexts involving Earth observation data. After introducing this new family of generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Fulvio Sanguigni , Mikolaj Czerkawski , Lorenzo Papa , Irene Amerini , Bertrand Le Saux

It is useful to study the space of all cosmological models from a dynamical systems perspective, that is, by formulating the Einstein field equations as a dynamical system using appropriately normalized variables. We will discuss various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-17 J. Wainwright , W. C. Lim

The mass distribution in the Galaxy is determined by dynamical and photometric methods. Rotation curves are the major tool for determining the dynamical mass distribution in the Milky Way and spiral galaxies. The photometric (statistical)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Yoshiaki Sofue

In this paper the recent interaction model over post-Newtonian theory of gravity has been used to study the stellar dynamics. It implies space time fabric that built over the massive object gets perturbed or literally contracted in presence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Shubhen Biswas

Given the growing number of available tools for modeling dynamic networks, the choice of a suitable model becomes central. The goal of this survey is to provide an overview of tie-oriented dynamic network models. The survey is focused on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Cornelius Fritz , Michael Lebacher , Göran Kauermann