Douglas C. Heggie

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According to Wikipedia, Douglas Cameron Heggie is a Scottish applied mathematician and astronomer, formerly holding the Personal Chair of Mathematical Astronomy at the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests are in stellar dynamics.

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Binary evolution in stellar dynamics (1975) (788)
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (2004) (314)
The gravitational million-body problem (2001) (239)
On the effects of dynamical evolution on the initial mass function of globular clusters (1997) (207)
The time-scale of escape from star clusters (1999) (163)
The effects of fly‐bys on planetary systems (2010) (142)
The life cycle of star clusters in a tidal field (2011) (128)
Standardised units and time scales (1986) (119)
Tidal tails of star clusters (2009) (118)
Dynamical evolution of black hole subsystems in idealized star clusters (2013) (117)
DYNAMICS OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS IN STAR CLUSTERS (2006) (115)
Statistics of N-body simulations – I. Equal masses before core collapse (1993) (114)
More on the structure of tidal tails (2011) (106)
A Multiphysics and Multiscale Software Environment for Modeling Astrophysical Systems (2008) (104)
BOOK REVIEW: The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Star Cluster Dynamics (2003) (103)
Gravitational Scattering (2005) (100)
MOCCA code for star cluster simulations II: comparison with n-body simulations (2011) (97)
The Effect of Encounters on the Eccentricity of Binaries in Clusters (1995) (94)
Peculiarities in velocity dispersion and surface density profiles of star clusters (2010) (93)
On the exponential instability of N-body systems (1993) (90)
Binary--Single-Star Scattering. VII. Hard Binary Exchange Cross Sections for Arbitrary Mass Ratios: Numerical Results and Semianalytic FITS (1996) (90)
Statistics of N-body simulations — III. Unequal masses (1995) (88)
Statistics of N-body simulations — IV. Unequal masses with a tidal field (1997) (74)
Basic N-body modelling of the evolution of globular clusters — I. Time scaling (1998) (73)
A global regularisation of the gravitationalN-body problem (1974) (73)
Long‐term evolution of isolated N‐body systems (2002) (72)
Star clusters with primordial binaries – I. Dynamical evolution of isolated models (2006) (66)
Pre-collapse evolution of galactic globular clusters (1994) (65)
Monte Carlo simulations of star clusters – VII. The globular cluster 47 Tuc (2010) (64)
Character and origin of Phobos’ grooves (2014) (64)
Star clusters with primordial binaries ¿ II. Dynamical evolution of models in a tidal field (2006) (63)
Dynamical effects of primordial binaries in star clusters. I : Equal masses (1992) (58)
Monte Carlo simulations of star clusters – V. The globular cluster M4 (2008) (55)
Binary-single-star scattering. IV - Analytic approximations and fitting formulae for cross sections and reaction rates (1993) (54)
Monte Carlo simulations of star clusters -IV. Calibration of the Monte Carlo code and comparison with observations for the open cluster M67 (2008) (49)
Monte Carlo simulations of star clusters -VI. The globular cluster NGC 6397 (2009) (47)
On the mass—radius relation of hot stellar systems (2010) (46)
The orbital eccentricities of binary millisecond pulsars in globular clusters (1995) (45)
Statistics of N-Body Simulations - Part Two - Equal Masses after Core Collapse (1994) (44)
The M 4 Core Project with HST - II. Multiple stellar populations at the bottom of the main sequence (2014) (37)
Towards an N-body model for the globular cluster M4 (2014) (37)
The tidal tails of 47 Tucanae (2012) (36)
The Core Radius of a Star Cluster Containing a Massive Black Hole (2006) (35)
Parameters of core collapse (2003) (34)
Evolution of star clusters after core collapse (1989) (32)
MODEST-2: a summary (2003) (32)
A search for spectroscopic binaries in the Galactic globular cluster M4 Based on 5973 individual spectra collected at VLT (2008) (32)
mocca code for star cluster simulations – III. Stellar-mass black holes in the globular cluster M22 (2014) (32)
Megalithic Science: Ancient Mathematics and Astronomy in North-west Europe (1981) (31)
On black hole subsystems in idealized nuclear star clusters (2013) (31)
Archaeoastronomy in the Old World (1982) (31)
Post-collapse evolution of a gaseous cluster model (1984) (30)
1 Gyr in the life of the globular cluster NGC 6397 (2009) (30)
The M/L* Ratio of Young Star Clusters in Galactic Mergers (2005) (29)
Bifurcation at complex instability (1985) (28)
Escape from a tidally limited star cluster (1997) (27)
Monte Carlo Simulations of Star Clusters - V. The globular cluster M4 (2008) (26)
Chaos in the N-Body Problem of Stellar Dynamics (1991) (24)
Two homological models for the evolution of star clusters (1988) (24)
A Search for Spectroscopic Binaries in the Globular Cluster M4 (2007) (21)
An Approximate Analytic Model of a Star Cluster with Potential Escapers (2017) (19)
Evolution of star clusters on eccentric orbits (2015) (18)
Neutron star natal kicks and the long-term survival of star clusters (2015) (18)
The M 4 Core Project with HST – III. Search for variable stars in the primary field (2014) (18)
A simple dynamical evolutionary model for ω Cen (2003) (18)
Dynamical Simulations: Methods and Comparisons (1997) (17)
On the relationship between instability and Lyapunov times for the three-body problem (2008) (16)
On the bifurcations of a certain family of periodic orbits (1983) (15)
A new outcome of binary–binary scattering (2000) (14)
Gravothermal oscillations in multi-component models of star clusters (2012) (14)
Spherical models of star clusters with potential escapers (2019) (13)
The N-Body Problem in Stellar Dynamics (1988) (13)
Three-body scattering near triple collision or expansion (1991) (13)
Three-body gravitational scattering: Comparison between theory and experiment (1979) (12)
Dark Matter in Globular Clusters (1995) (12)
The Classical Gravitational N-Body Problem (2005) (12)
The kinematic richness of star clusters – I. Isolated spherical models with primordial anisotropy (2017) (11)
Regularization Using a Time-Transformation Only (1973) (11)
Megalithic lunar observatories: an astronomer's view (1972) (11)
Gravothermal expansion in an N-body system (1993) (11)
The origin of chaos in the orbit of comet 1P/Halley (2016) (10)
Predictions for triple stars with and without a pulsar in star clusters (2007) (10)
Orbital Divergence and Relaxation in the Gravitational N-Body Problem (2001) (10)
Mapping the stability of stellar rotating spheres via linear response theory (2019) (10)
The M 4 Core Project with HST: I. Overview and first epoch (2013) (9)
McScatter: A simple three-body scattering package with stellar evolution (2006) (9)
Ecology of globular clusters (1992) (9)
The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: MICROPHYSICS: N = 2 (2003) (9)
Dynamical evolution of dense stellar systems : proceedings of the 246th symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Capri, Italy, September 5-9, 2007 (2008) (8)
Gravothermal oscillations in two-component models of star clusters (2011) (7)
From urban to national heat island: The effect of anthropogenic heat output on climate change in high population industrial countries (2016) (7)
The effects of flybys on planetary systems (2013) (7)
l = 1: Weinberg’s weakly damped mode in an N-body model of a spherical stellar system (2020) (6)
The M/L ratio of massive young clusters (2005) (6)
Escape in Hill’s problem (2000) (5)
Mass Loss from Globular Clusters (2000) (5)
Problems of Collisional Stellar Dynamics (2011) (5)
STAR CLUSTER ECOLOGY (2003) (5)
Few-body modes of binary formation in core collapse (2012) (5)
A Simple Dynamical Model for ω (2002) (5)
The probability of binary formation by three-body encounters. (1976) (5)
Modeling Dense Stellar Systems (2007) (4)
A multi-particle regularisation technique (1971) (4)
Erratum: The tidal tails of 47 Tucanae (2012) (4)
The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: A Simple N -Body Integrator (2003) (4)
A theory of core collapse in clusters. (1979) (3)
Exact equilibria of a stellar system in a linearized tidal field (2007) (3)
A model gravothermal oscillator (1992) (3)
Gravitational N-Body Problem (Classical) (2006) (3)
A global regularization of theN-body Problem (1974) (3)
The kinematic richness of star clusters – II. Stability of spherical anisotropic models with rotation (2021) (3)
Dynamics and Evolution of Globular Clusters (1980) (3)
Effect of stars on the dark matter spike around a black hole: A tale of two treatments (2022) (3)
THE SCATTERING PROBLEM (1988) (3)
Michel Henon's contributions to collisional stellar systems (2014) (2)
The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: Star Cluster Evolution (2003) (2)
The Role of Binaries in Cluster Dynamics (1974) (2)
Statistics of Small- N Simulations (1995) (2)
Star Cluster Simulations (1997) (2)
Redundant variables for ‘global’ regularization of the three-body problem (1976) (2)
Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters After Core Collapse (1985) (2)
Star cluster dynamics: Mathematical models (1986) (2)
Two-Body Relaxation (2003) (1)
Computational Physics Introduction (2003) (1)
The Dynamical Evolution of Binaries in Clusters (1975) (1)
Two collaborative experiments in star cluster evolution (2001) (1)
A Simple Dynamical Model for Omega Cen (2002) (1)
Modelling Individual Globular Clusters (2007) (1)
Star Clusters and Associations (1982) (1)
Archaeoastronomy in the Old World: MEGALITHIC ASTRONOMY: HIGHLIGHTS AND PROBLEMS (1982) (1)
Gravothermal Oscillations (1993) (1)
Exchange Cross Sections For Hard Binaries (1996) (1)
The Lifetime of Binary Stars (1977) (1)
Stellar N-body Systems: Dissipation (2000) (1)
Binaries in Star Clusters (2003) (1)
Binary Star Evolution and Blue Stragglers (2003) (0)
Commission 7: Celestial mechanics and dynamical astronomy (Mécanique céleste et astronomie dynamique) (2000) (0)
N ov 2 00 0 1 Escape in Hill ’ s Problem (2000) (0)
The density and drag of the accretion wake of a massive body moving through a uniform stellar distribution (2004) (0)
J un 2 00 8 Dynamics of Planetary Systems in Star Clusters (2009) (0)
Theoretical Physics Introduction (2003) (0)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Variable stars in M4 primary field (Nascimbeni+, 2014) (2015) (0)
Book Review: Integrable Problems of Celestial Mechanics in Spaces of Constant Curvature / Kluwer Academic, 2003 (2004) (0)
Gravitational Burning and Transmutation (2003) (0)
Internal Mass Loss (2003) (0)
CELESTIAL MECHANICS AND DYNAMICAL ASTRONOMY CELESTE ASTRONOMIE (2015) (0)
Book Review: Megalithic Society: Science and Society in Prehistoric Britain (1978) (0)
Book Review: Edinburgh Astronomy: The Story of Astronomy in Edinburgh (1985) (0)
The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: Exponential Orbit Instability (2003) (0)
Predictions for Triple Stars and Pulsar Triples in Star Clusters (2007) (0)
J. Fauvel, R. Flood, M. Shortland and R. Wilson, Let Newton be! (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989), 288 pp., cloth 0 19 853 924 X, £17.50; paper 0 19 853937 1, £8.95. (1990) (0)
D ec 2 00 6 Dynamics of Planetary Systems in Star Clusters (2009) (0)
P. G. Drazin, Nonlinear systems (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992) 330 pp., hardback 0 521 40489, £40; paper 0 521 40668 4, £17.95. (1994) (0)
Surviving Core Collapse (2003) (0)
Triple Formation and Evolution (2003) (0)
V. I. Arnol'd, Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke , translated by E. J. F. Primrose (Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel1990), 118 pp., 3 7643 2383 3, sFr 24. (1991) (0)
The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: Collisions and Capture (2003) (0)
Core Collapse Rate for Star Clusters (2003) (0)
Some Equilibrium Models (2003) (0)
Sugimoto on General Accounts (2015) (0)
"Megalithic Science", Douglas C. Heggie, London 1981 : [recenzja] / Z. Krzak. (1983) (0)
P. Fischer and W. R. Smith (eds.) Chaos, fractals and dynamics (Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics 98, Marcel Dekker, 1985), viii + 261 pp., $71.50. (1987) (0)
Linear stability of stellar rotating spheres (2019) (0)
The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: Laboratory Experiments (2003) (0)
A summary of Joint Discussion 14 (2006) (0)
Primary Minimum of Algol. (1967) (0)
3 2 3 D ec 2 00 8 Dynamics of Planetary Systems in Star Clusters (2009) (0)
Snapshots of an N-body model of M4 (2014) (0)
The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: Mathematical Three-Body Scattering (2003) (0)
Dynamics of cluster binaries (1977) (0)
Book Reviews: Astronomy and Society in Britain during the period 4000-1500 B.C., ed. by C. L. N. Ruggles and A. W. R. Whittle (1982) (0)
The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: Gravothermal Oscillations (2003) (0)
Dynamics of Globular Star Clusters (1989) (0)
Unveiling the stellar Initial Mass Function of Galactic Globular Clusters (2002) (0)
The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: A Non-Renewable Energy Source (2003) (0)
Book Review: THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM / Cambridge University Press, 2006 (2006) (0)
Book Review: Dynamical evolution of globular clusters. / Princeton U Press, 1987 (1988) (0)
High-resolution simulations of globular cluster dynamics (2008) (0)
Motion in a Central Potential (2003) (0)
Galactic Disk Shocks on Globular Clusters (1996) (0)
Archaeoastronomy in the Old World: PREFACE (1982) (0)
The Orbital Eccentricities of Binary Millisecond Pulsars inGlobular (2007) (0)
Non-Universality for a Class of Bifurcations (1982) (0)
Monte Carlo Simulations of Star Clusters with Primordial Binaries. Comparison with N-body Simulations and Observations (2007) (0)
The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: POST-COLLAPSE EVOLUTION: N = 106 (2003) (0)
Book Review: Astronomy and Society in Britain during the Period 4000–1500 B.C (1982) (0)
James Cornell: The first stargazers. An introduction to the origins of astronomy . London: Athlone Press, 1981. 272 pp., 71 figs. £7.95. (1982) (0)
Phase space complexity of star clusters: Fresh observables for old and new questions (2019) (0)
Book-Review - Astronomy of the Ancients (1980) (0)
Dark Halos in Globular Clusters (1993) (0)
D. K. Arrowsmith and C. M. Place An Introduction to Dynamical Systems (Cambridge University Press, 1990), 433 pp., hard cover 0 521 30362 1, £50; paper 0 521 31650 2, £19.50. (1991) (0)
GRAVOTHERMODYNAMICS: N = 106 (2003) (0)
Star Clusters (1993) (0)
A linear stability study of stellar rotating spheres (2019) (0)
PRIMORDIAL BINARIES: N = 4 (2003) (0)
Clive L. N. Ruggles: Megalithic astronomy–A new archaeological and statistical study of 300 Western Scottish sites. Oxford: BAR British Series 123, 1984. 320 pp., 18 tables, 96 figs. £15.00. (1984) (0)
Fred Hoyle: From Stonehenge to modern cosmology. San Francisco and Reading: W. H. Freeman, 1973. 96 pp., 36 figs. (1 pullout). $4.95 £2.10 (1973) (0)
GRAVITATIONAL SCATTERING: N = 3 (2003) (0)
Stellar and Dynamical Evolution (2003) (0)
MEAN FIELD DYNAMICS: N = 106 (2003) (0)
New science from the phase space of old stellar systems (2017) (0)
Nonequilibrum behaviour of finite gravitating systems (2006) (0)
Test of the Accuracy of Approximate Methods to Handle Distant Binary-Single Star Encounters (2007) (0)
Aurora of 1967 Sep 29. (1967) (0)
Hints to Solution of Problems (2003) (0)
Quoting Standard Deviations in VS reports. (1968) (0)
A Numerical Approximation for Hierarchical Triples (1996) (0)
Escape and Mass Segregation (2003) (0)
THE CONTINUUM LIMIT: N → ∞ (2003) (0)
COMMISSION 7: CELESTIAL MECHANICS AND DYNAMICAL ASTRONOMY (2005) (0)
The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: From Kepler to Kustaanheimo (2003) (0)
COMMISSION 7: CELESTIAL MECHANICS AND DYNAMICAL ASTRONOMY (2010) (0)
Dynamical evolution of globular clusters in dark matter halos (2017) (0)

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University of Edinburgh