Scott Tremaine

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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

• 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