Binney James, Tremaine Scott. Galactic Dynamics

2nd Edition. — Princeton University Press, 2008. — 868 p. (Princeton Series in Astrophysics 13). — ISBN10: 9780691130279.Классическая монография, посвященная строению и движению галактик. В частности, подробно рассматривается модель тонкого диска.
Since it was first published in 1987, Galactic Dynamics has become the most widely used advanced textbook on the structure and dynamics of galaxies and one of the most cited references in astrophysics. Now, in this extensively revised and updated edition, James Binney and Scott Tremaine describe the dramatic recent advances in this subject, making Galactic Dynamics the most authoritative introduction to galactic astrophysics available to advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers.
Every part of the book has been thoroughly overhauled, and many sections have been completely rewritten. Many new topics are covered, including N-body simulation methods, black holes in stellar systems, linear stability and response theory, and galaxy formation in the cosmological context. Binney and Tremaine, two of the world's leading astrophysicists, use the tools of theoretical physics to describe how galaxies and other stellar systems work, succinctly and lucidly explaining theoretical principles and their applications to observational phenomena. They provide readers with an understanding of stellar dynamics at the level needed to reach the frontiers of the subject.Potential Theory
The Orbits of Stars
Equilibria of Collisionless Systems
Stability of Collisionless Systems
Disk Dynamics and Spiral Structure
Kinetic Theory
Collisions and Encounters of Stellar Systems
Galaxy Formation
Appendices
Useful numbers
Mathematical background
Special functions
Mechanics
Delaunay variables for Kepler orbits
Fluid mechanics
Discrete Fourier transforms
The Antonov - Lebovitz theorem
The Doremus{Feix{Baumann theorem
Angular-momentum transport in disks
Derivation of the reduction factor
The diffusion coeffcients
The distribution of binary energies