Research career of an astronomer who has studied celestial mechanics  

作　　者：Yoshihide Kozai 

机构地区：[1]National Astronomical Observatory of Japan,Mitaka,Tokyo 181-8588,Japan

出　　处：《Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics》2016年第9期1-6,共6页天文和天体物理学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：Celestial mechanics has been a classical field of astronomy. Only a few astronomers were in this field and not so many papers on this subject had been published during the first half of the 20th century. However, as the beauty of classical dynamics and celestial mechanics attracted me very much, I decided to take celestial mechanics as my research subject and entered university, where a very famous professor of celestial mechanics was a member of the faculty. Then as artificial satellites were launched starting from October 1958, new topics were investigated in the field of celestial mechanics. Moreover, planetary rings, asteroids with moderate values of eccentricity, inclination and so on have become new fields of celestial mechanics. In fact I have tried to solve such problems in an analytical way. Finally, to understand what gravitation is I joined the TAMA300 gravitational wave detector group.Celestial mechanics has been a classical field of astronomy. Only a few astronomers were in this field and not so many papers on this subject had been published during the first half of the 20th century. However, as the beauty of classical dynamics and celestial mechanics attracted me very much, I decided to take celestial mechanics as my research subject and entered university, where a very famous professor of celestial mechanics was a member of the faculty. Then as artificial satellites were launched starting from October 1958, new topics were investigated in the field of celestial mechanics. Moreover, planetary rings, asteroids with moderate values of eccentricity, inclination and so on have become new fields of celestial mechanics. In fact I have tried to solve such problems in an analytical way. Finally, to understand what gravitation is I joined the TAMA300 gravitational wave detector group.

关 键 词：celestial mechanics -- occultation -- minor planets -- asteroids general -- planets andsatellites general -- planets and satellites rings -- artificial satellite -- gravitational waves 

分 类 号：P13[天文地球—天体力学] P1-09[天文地球—天文学]