Using multichannel singular spectrum analysis to study galaxy dynamics

@article{Weinberg2020UsingMS,
  title={Using multichannel singular spectrum analysis to study galaxy dynamics},
  author={Martin D. Weinberg and Michael S. Petersen},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2020}
}
N-body simulations provide most of our insight into the structure and evolution of galaxies, but our analyses of these are often heuristic and from simple statistics. We propose a method that discovers the dynamics in space and time together by finding the most correlated temporal signals in multiple time-series of basis-function expansion coefficients and any other data fields of interest. The method extracts the dominant trends in the spatial variation of the gravitational field along with… 
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