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Scott Tremaine
Researcher at Institute for Advanced Study
Publications - 259
Citations - 46961
Scott Tremaine is an academic researcher from Institute for Advanced Study. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Planet. The author has an hindex of 90, co-authored 256 publications receiving 44123 citations. Previous affiliations of Scott Tremaine include Canadian Institute for Advanced Research & Princeton University.
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Probing the Galactic Potential with Next-Generation Observations of Disk Stars
TL;DR: In this paper, a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach was used to estimate the azimuthally averaged gravitational force field in the Galactic plane and hence to a lesser extent the Galactic mass distribution.
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Secular Dynamics around a Supermassive Black Hole via Multipole Expansion.
TL;DR: In this article, a multipole expansion of the pairwise interaction between the stars yields an efficient numerical code to investigate the long-term evolution of their orbital parameters in galactic nuclei.
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Constraining sub-Parsec Binary Supermassive Black Holes in Quasars with Multi-Epoch Spectroscopy. I. The General Quasar Population
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors perform a systematic search for sub-parsec binary supermassive black holes (BHs) in normal broad line quasars at z < 0.8, using multi-epoch SDSS spectroscopy of the broad Hbeta line.
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Comparison of simple mass estimators for slowly rotating elliptical galaxies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the performance of mass estimators for elliptical galaxies that rely on the directly observable surface brightness and velocity dispersion profiles, without invoking computationally expensive detailed modeling.
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Lattice stellar dynamics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a technique for solving the combined collisionless Boltzmann and Poisson equations in a discretised, or lattice, phase space, where the time and the positions and velocities of ''particles'' take on integer values, and the forces are rounded to the nearest integer.