Scott Tremaine
Coordinates:
Scott Tremaine
Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences
113 Peyton Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1001
USA
Tel (609) 258-3800
Fax (609) 258-1020
My e-mail
address is tremaine at astro.princeton.edu
AST 541, Seminar in
Theoretical Astrophysics
AST 513, Stellar Systems
Lectures on planet formation, Frontiers of
Astronomy school, Alexandria, Egypt (March 2006)
Research Interests:
Stellar dynamics, galactic structure, nuclear
black holes, planetary formation
and dynamics, comets
Here is a list of recent papers:
- Zakamska, N., & Tremaine, S. "Excitation
and propagation of eccentricity disturbances in planetary systems",
AJ 128, 869
- Zakamska, N., & Tremaine, S. 2004, "Extrasolar planet orbits and
eccentricities", in The Search for Other Worlds, ed. S. S. Holt
& D. Deming (New Yrok: American Institute of Physics), 243
- De Simone, R., Wu, X., & Tremaine, S. 2004, "The stellar velocity distribution in the
solar neighborhood", MNRAS 350, 627
- Yu, Q., & Tremaine, S. 2003, "Ejection
of hypervelocity stars by the (binary) black hole at the Galactic
center", ApJ, 599, 1128
- Peiris, H., & Tremaine, S. 2003, "Eccentric-disk
models for the nucleus of M31", ApJ, 599, 237
- Pinkney, J., Gebhardt, K., Bender, R., Bower, G., Dressler, A.,
Faber, S. M., Filippenko, A. V., Green, R., Ho, L. C., Kormendy, J.,
Lauer, T. R., Magorrian, J., Richstone, D., & Tremaine, S. 2003, ``Kinematics
of ten early-type galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based
spectroscopy'', ApJ, 596, 903
- Ford, E. B., & Tremaine, S. 2003, ``Planet
finding prospects for the Space Interferometry Mission'', Publ.
Astr. Soc. Pac., 115, 1171
- Gebhardt, K., Richstone, D., Tremaine, S., Lauer, T. R., Bender,
R., Bower, G., Dressler, A., Faber, S. M., Filippenko, A. V., Green,
R., Grillmair, C., Ho, L. C., Kormendy, J., Magorrian, J., &
Pinkney, J. 2002, ``Axisymmetric
dynamical models of the central regions of galaxies'', ApJ, 583, 92
- Tremaine, S. 2002, ``On
the origin of irregular structure in Saturn's rings'', AJ, 125, 894
- Tabachnik, S., and Tremaine, S. 2002,
``Maximum likelihood method for estimating the mass and period
distributions of extra-solar planets'', MNRAS, 335, 151
- Lauer, T. R., Gebhardt, K., Richstone, D., Tremaine, S., Bender,
R., Bower, G., Dressler, A., Faber, S. M., Filippenko, A. V., Green,
R., Grillmair, C. J., Ho, L. C., Kormendy, J., Magorrian, J., Pinkney,
J., Laine, S., Postman, M., & van der Marel, R. P. 2002, ``Galaxies
with a central minimum in stellar luminosity density'', AJ, 124,
1975
- Yu, Q., and Tremaine, S. 2002, ``Observational
constraints on the growth of massive black holes'', MNRAS, 335, 965
- Tremaine, S., Gebhardt, K., Bender, R., Bower, G., Dressler, A.,
Faber, S. M., Filippenko, A. V., Green, R., Grillmair, C., Ho, L. C.,
Kormendy, J., Lauer, T. R., Magorrian, J., Pinkney, J., and Richstone,
D. 2002, ``The
slope of the black-hole mass versus velocity dispersion correlation'',
ApJ, 574, 740
- Chiang, E.~I., Tabachnik, S., and Tremaine, S. 2001, ``Apsidal
alignment in u Andromedae'', AJ, 122, 1607
- Tremaine, S. 2001, ``Canonical elements for collision orbits'',
Cel. Mech. Dyn. Astron., 79, 231
- Tremaine, S. 2001,
``Slow modes in Keplerian disks'', AJ, 121, 1776
- Yu, Q., and Tremaine, S. 2001, ``Resonant capture by inward
migrating planets'', AJ, 121, 1736
- Gebhardt, K., Kormendy, J., Ho, L. C., Bender, R., Bower, G.,
Dressler, A., Faber, S. M., Filippenko, A. V., Green, R., Grillmair,
C.,
Lauer, T. R., Magorrian, J., Pinkney, J., Richstone, D., and Tremaine,
S. 2000, "Black hole mass estimates from
reverberation mapping and from spatially resolved kinematics",
ApJL, 543, L5
- Gebhardt, K., Bender, R., Bower, G., Dressler, A., Faber, S. M.,
Filippenko, A. V., Green, R., Grillmair, C., Ho, L., Kormendy, J.,
Lauer, T. R., Magorrian, J., Pinkney, J., Richstone, D., and Tremaine,
S. 2000, "A relationship between nuclear
black hole mass and velocity dispersion", ApJL, 539, L13
- Tremaine, S., and Yu, Q. 1999, "Resonant
capture, counter-rotating disks, and polar rings", MNRAS, 319, 1
- Evans, N. W., and Tremaine, S. 1999, "Linear
multistep methods for integrating reversible differential equations",
AJ 118, 1888
- Gebhardt, K., Richstone, D., Kormendy, J., Lauer, T., Ajhar, E.,
Bender, R., Dressler, A., Faber, S., Grillmair, C., Magorrian, J., and
Tremaine, S. 1999, "Axisymmetric,
3-integral models of galaxies: a massive black hole in NGC3379",
AJ, in press
- Yu, Q., and Tremaine, S. 1999, "The
dynamics of Plutinos", AJ 118, 1873
- Preto, M., and Tremaine, S. 1999, "A
class of symplectic integrators with adaptive timestep for separable
Hamiltonian systems", AJ, 118, 2532
- Tremaine, S. 1999, "The geometry of
phase mixing", MNRAS 307, 877
- Magorrian, J., and Tremaine, S. 1999, "Rates of tidal disruption of stars by
massive central black holes", MNRAS 309, 447 (plus table)
- Tremaine, S., and Ostriker, J. P. 1999, "Relaxation in stellar systems, and the shape
and rotation of the inner dark halo", MNRAS 306, 662
- Nelson, R. W., and Tremaine, S. 1999, "Linear
response, dynamical friction and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem in
stellar dynamics", MNRAS 306, 1
- Wiegert, P., and Tremaine, S. 1999, "The
evolution of long-period comets", Icarus 137, 84
- Magorrian, J., Tremaine, S., Richstone, D., Bender, R., Bower,
G., Dressler, A., Faber, S. M., Gebhardt, K., Green, R., Grillmair, C.,
Kormendy, J., and Lauer, T. 1998, "The demography of massive dark
objects in galaxy centers", AJ 115, 2285
- Richstone, D., Ajhar, E. A., Bender, R., Bower, G., Dressler,
A.,
Faber, S. M., Filippenko, A. V., Gebhardt, K., Green, R., Ho, L. C.,
Kormendy, J., Lauer, T. R., Magorrian, J., and Tremaine, S. 1998,
"Supermassive black holes and the evolution of galaxies", Nature 395,
A14
- Murray, N., Hansen, B., Holman, M., and Tremaine, S. 1998,
"Migrating planets", Science 279, 69
- Hayes, W., and Tremaine, S. 1998, "Fitting random stable solar
systems to Titius-Bode laws", Icarus 135, 549
- Murali, C., and Tremaine, S. 1998, "Linear response of galactic halos to
adiabatic gravitational perturbations", MNRAS 296, 749
- Touma, J., and Tremaine, S. 1997, "A
map for eccentric orbits in triaxial potentials", MNRAS, 292, 905
- Holman, M., Touma, J., and Tremaine, S. 1997, "Chaotic
variations
in the eccentricity of the planet orbiting 16 Cyg B", Nature 386, 254
- Lauer, T. R., Tremaine, S., Ajhar, E. A., Bender, R., Dressler,
A., Faber, S. M., Gebhardt, K., Grillmair, C., Kormendy, J., and
Richstone, D. 1996, "Hubble Space Telescope observations of the double
nucleus of NGC 4486B", ApJ 471, L79
- Kormendy, J., Bender, R., Ajhar, E. A., Dressler, A., Faber, S.
M., Gebhardt, K., Grillmair, C., Lauer, T. R., Richstone, D., and
Tremaine, S. 1996, "Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopic evidence for a
1e9 Msun black hole in NGC 4594", ApJ 473, L91
- Faber, S. M., Tremaine, S., Ajhar, E. A., Byun, Y.-I., Dressler,
A., Gebhardt, K., Grillmair, C., Kormendy, J., Lauer, T. R., and
Richstone, D., 1997, "The centers of early-type galaxies with HST. IV.
Central parameter relations", AJ 114, 1171
- Kormendy, J., Bender, R., Magorrian, J., Tremaine, S., Gebhardt,
K., Richstone, D., Dressler, A., Faber, S. M., Grillmair, C., and
Lauer,
T. R., 1997, "Spectroscopic evidence for a supermassive black hole in
NGC 4486B", ApJ 482, L139
- Saha, P., Stadel, J., and Tremaine, S. 1997, "A parallel integration method for solar system
dynamics", AJ, 114, 409
- Tremaine, S. 1997, "The centers of
elliptical galaxies", in Some Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics, J.
N. Bahcall and J. P. Ostriker, eds. (Princeton: Princeton University
Press), 137
- Syer, D., and Tremaine, S. 1996, "Made-to-measure
N-body systems", MNRAS 282, 223
- Rauch, K. P., and Tremaine, S. 1996, "Resonance relaxation in stellar systems",
New Astr. 1, 149
- Kormendy, J., Bender, R., Richstone, D., Ajhar, E. A., Dressler,
A., Faber, S. M., Gebhardt, K., Grillmair, C., Lauer, T. R., and
Tremaine, S. 1996, "Hubble Space Telescope} spectroscopic evidence for
a
2x10^9 Msun black hole in NGC 3115", ApJ 459, L57
- Gebhardt, K., Richstone, D., Ajhar, E. A., Lauer, T. R., Byun,
Y.-I., Kormendy, J., Dressler, A., Faber, S. M., Grillmair, C., and
Tremaine, S. 1996, "The centers of early-type galaxies with HST: III.
Non-parametric recovery of stellar luminosity distributions", AJ 112,
105
- Syer, D., and Tremaine, S. 1996, Non-axisymmetric,
scale-free, razor-thin discs", MNRAS 281, 925
- Nelson, R. W., and Tremaine, S. 1996, "The dynamics of warped galaxies",
in Gravitational Dynamics, O. Lahav, E. Terlevich and R. Terlevich,
eds.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 73
- Tremaine, S. 1995, "Is the solar
system stable?", in Frontiers of Astrophysics, Proceedings of the
Rosseland Centenary Symposium, P. B. Lilje and P. Maltby, eds. (Oslo:
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics), 85