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David Merritt |
David Roy Merritt (born November 16, 1955, in Los Angeles) is an American
astrophysicist.
Education and career
He received in 1982 his PhD in Astrophysical Sciences from
Princeton University with thesis advisor
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
[1] and held postdoctoral positions at the
University of California, Berkeley and the
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in
Toronto. Merritt's fields of specialization include dynamics and evolution of
galaxies,
supermassive black holes, and computational astrophysics.
Until 2017, he was a professor at the
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in
Rochester,
New York. He was a former Chair of the
Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the
American Astronomical Society. He is a founding member of the
Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation at RIT.
His scientific contributions include
Osipkov–Merritt models,
[2] black hole
spin flips,
[3] the
Leonard–Merritt mass estimator,
[4] the
M–sigma relation,
[5] stellar systems with negative temperatures,
[6] and the Schwarzschild Barrier.
[7]
Awards and honors
Work
Books
- Merritt, D.
Dynamics and Evolution of Galactic Nuclei (Princeton:
Princeton University Press), 551 pp., 2013
- Merritt, D.
A Philosophical Approach to MOND (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press), 282 pp., 2020
- Parusniková, Z. and Merritt, D. (Eds.)
Karl Popper's Science and Philosophy (Berlin: Springer International Publishing), 383 pp., 2021
Popular articles
Philosophy of science articles
Videos
External links
References
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"David Merritt". Physics Tree.
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Merritt, David (1985).
"Spherical Stellar Systems with Spheroidal Velocity Distributions".
The Astronomical Journal. 90: 1027–1037.
Bibcode:
1985AJ.....90.1027M.
doi:
10.1086/113810.
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^ Merritt, David; Ekers, Ron (2002). "Tracing Black Hole Mergers through Radio Lobe Morphology".
Science. 297 (5585): 1310–1313.
arXiv:
astro-ph/0208001.
Bibcode:
2002Sci...297.1310M.
doi:
10.1126/science.1074688.
PMID
12154199.
S2CID
1582420.
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^ Leonard, Peter; Merritt, David (1989). "The Mass of the Open Star Cluster M35 as Derived from Proper Motions".
The Astrophysical Journal. 339: 195–208.
Bibcode:
1989ApJ...339..195L.
doi:
10.1086/167287.
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^ Ferrarese, Laura; Merritt, David (2000). "A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies".
The Astrophysical Journal. 539 (1): L9–L12.
arXiv:
astro-ph/0006053.
Bibcode:
2000ApJ...539L...9F.
doi:
10.1086/312838.
S2CID
6508110.
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^ Merritt, David; Tremaine, Scott; Johnstone, Doug (1989).
"Models of Violently Relaxed Galaxies".
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 236 (4): 829–841.
Bibcode:
1989MNRAS.236..829M.
doi:
10.1093/mnras/236.4.829.
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Merritt, David (2015). "Gravitational Encounters and the Evolution of Galactic Nuclei. IV. Captures Mediated by Gravitational-wave Energy Loss".
The Astrophysical Journal. 814 (1): 57–69.
arXiv:
1511.08169.
Bibcode:
2015ApJ...814...57M.
doi:
10.1088/0004-637X/814/1/57.
S2CID
55489594.
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