Jack G. Hills

Jack G. Hills
Jack G. Hills
Born Jack G. Hills

Jack G. Hills is a theorist of stellar dynamics. He worked on the Oort cloud;[1] the inner part of it, the Hills cloud, was named after him. He spent much of his professional career at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which named him a Laboratory Fellow in 1998.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Stellar Dynamics: Jack Hills". Department of Physics and Astronomy. Archived from the original on 15 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Laboratory Fellows from 1981 to the present Los Alamos National Security J. G. Hills has made large contributions to Laboratory and international programs in astrophysics, interplanet science, and asteroid interdiction. He also is recognized worldwide as one of the major authorities in the field of stellar dynamics and has made seminal contributions to the quantitative understanding of interactions between binary and single stars in clusters.
  • Jack G. Hills (1981). "Comet showers and the steady-state infall of comets from the Oort Cloud". Astronomical Journal. 86: 1730–1740. Bibcode:1981AJ.....86.1730H. doi:10.1086/113058.
  • J. G. Hills (1984). "Dynamical constraints on the mass and perihelion distance of Nemesis and the stability of its orbit". Nature. 311 (5987): 636–638. Bibcode:1984Natur.311..636H. doi:10.1038/311636a0.



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