Spring 2019

• Feb 19: Intro to Delauney variables and perturbation theory.

  reading: Chapters 1 & 2 of Morbidelli's book

  codes: Check out celmech for computing & integrating normal forms

• Mar 05: Secular dynamics in heriarchical triples

  reading: Naoz et. al. 2013

• Mar 12: Secular dynamics in triples, part II

  reading: Lithwick & Naoz 2011

  codes: eccentric KL notebook

  presenter: Sam Hadden

• Apr 16:

  reading: Rafikov & Hamilton (2019) Part I and II

  presenter: Carl Rodriguez

• Apr 30:

  reading: A Pluto--Charon Sonata: The Dynamical Architecture of the Circumbinary Satellite System and Dynamical Limits on the Masses of the Small Satellites

  presenter: Scott Kenyon

• May 14:

  reading: Hybrid symplectic integrators for planetary dynamics (Rein et. al. 2019)

  presenter: Terry-Ann Suer

  further reading:

  • The 'Wisdom-Holman' mapping (Wisdom & Holman 1991)
  • Original 'Mercury' paper (Chambers 1999)
  • Wisdom 2018 discusses symplectic integration

  code: REBOUND along with MERCURIUS example