Joel E. Tohline

Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Louisiana State University


Key Publications: (for complete list of publications, click here)

The Astrophysics of Compact Objects
Anderson, M., E. W. Hirschmann, L. Lehner, S. L. Liebling, P. M. Motl, D. Neilsen, C. Palenzuela, and J. E. Tohline (2008) Physical Review Letters, 100, 191101 (arXiv:0801.4387)
"Magnetized Neutron Star Mergers and Gravitational Wave Signals"
Anderson, M., E. W. Hirschmann, L. Lehner, S. L. Liebling, P. M. Motl, D. Neilsen, C. Palenzuela, and J. E. Tohline (2008) Physical Review D, 77, 04006 (arXiv:0708.2720)
"Simulating Binary Neutron Stars: Dynamics and Gravitational Waves"
Motl, P. M., J. Frank, J. E. Tohline, and M. C. R. D'Souza (2007) The Astrophysical Journal, 670, 1314 (astro-ph/0702388)
"The Stability of Double White Dwarf Binaries Undergoing Direct Impact Accretion"
Ou, S., J. E. Tohline, and P. M. Motl (2007) The Astrophysical Journal, 665, 1074-1083 (astro-ph/0702750)
"Further Evidence for an Elliptical Instability in Rotating Fluid Bars and Ellipsoidal Stars"
Kopparapu, R. K. and J. E. Tohline (2006) The Astrophysical Journal, 655, 1025-1032 (astro-ph/0610555)
"Population Boundaries for Galactic White Dwarf Binaries in LISA's Amplitude-Frequency Domain"
Ou, S. and J. E. Tohline (2006) The Astrophysical Journal, 651, 1068-1078 (astro-ph/0604099)
"Unexpected Dynamical Instabilities in Differentially Rotating Neutron Stars"
D'Souza, M., P. M. Motl, J. E. Tohline, and J. Frank (2006) The Astrophysical Journal, 643, 381-401 (astro-ph/0512137)
"Numerical Simulations of the Onset and Stability of Dynamical Mass Transfer in Binaries"
Ott, C. D., S. Ou, J. E. Tohline, and A. Burrows (2005), The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 625, pp. L119-L122. (astro-ph/0503187)
"One-armed Spiral Instability in a Slowly Rotating, Post-Bounce Supernova Core"
Ou, S., J. E. Tohline, and L. Lindblom (2004), The Astrophysical Journal, 617, 490-499 (astro-ph/0406037)
"Nonlinear Development of the Secular Bar-Mode Instability in Rotating Neutron Stars"
Motl, P. M., J. E. Tohline, and J. Frank (2002), The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 138, 121 - 148.
"Numerical Methods for the Simulation of Dynamical Mass Transfer in Binaries"
Lindblom, L., J. E. Tohline, and M. Vallisneri (2001), Physical Review Letters, 86, 1152-1155 (12 February).
"Non-Linear Evolution of the r-Modes in Neutron Stars"
New, K.C.B., J. M. Centrella, and J. E. Tohline (2000). Physical Review D, 62, 064019.
"Gravitational Waves from Long-Duration Simulations of the Dynamical Bar Instability."
New, K. C. B. and J. E. Tohline, (1997), The Astrophysical Journal, 490, 311-327.
"The Relative Stability Against Merger of Close, Compact Binaries."
New, K. C. B., G. Chanmugam, W. W. Johnson, and J. E. Tohline. (1995), The Astrophysical Journal, 450, 757-762.
"Millisecond Pulsars: Detectable Sources of Continuous Gravitational Waves?."
Tohline, J. E. (1984), The Astrophysical Journal, 285, 721.
"The Collapse of Rotating Stellar Cores: Equilibria Between White Dwarf and Neutron Star Densities."
Star Formation
Tohline, J. E. (2002), Annual Reviews of Astronomy & Astrophysics, 40, 349 - 385.
"The Origin of Binary Stars"
Cazes, J. E. and J. E. Tohline, (2000), The Astrophysical Journal, 532, 1051 - 1068.
"Self-Gravitating Gaseous Bars. I. Compressible Analogs of Riemann Ellipsoids with Supersonic Internal Flows."
Woodward, J. W., J. E. Tohline, and I. Hachisu. (1994), The Astrophysical Journal, 420,247-267.
"The Stability of Thick, Self-Gravitating Disks in Protostellar Systems."
Durisen, R. H. and J. E. Tohline. (1985), in Protostars and Planets. II, ed. D. C. Black and M. S. Matthews (Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press), pp. 534-575.
"Fission of Rapidly Rotating Fluid Systems."
Tohline, J. E. (1982), Fundamentals of Cosmic Physics, 8, pp. l-82. [PDF]
"Hydrodynamic Collapse."
Galaxies
Barnes, E. I. and J. E. Tohline, (2001), The Astrophysical Journal, 551, 80 - 102.
" Populating Stellar Orbits Inside a Rotating, Gaseous Bar "
Cazes, J. E. and J. E. Tohline, (2000), The Astrophysical Journal, 532, 1051 - 1068.
"Self-Gravitating Gaseous Bars. I. Compressible Analogs of Riemann Ellipsoids with Supersonic Internal Flows."
New, K. C. B., J. E. Tohline, J. Frank, and H. M. Väth. (1998), The Astrophysical Journal, 503, 632-645.
"A Physical Model of Warped Galaxy Disks."
Tohline, J. E. and R. H. Durisen. (1982), The Astrophysical Journal, 257, 94.
"The Orientation of Gas Disks in Tumbling Prolate Galaxies."
Tohline, J. E., G. F. Simonson and N. Caldwell. (1982), The Astrophysical Journal, 252, 92.
"Using Gaseous Disks to Probe the Geometric Structure of Elliptical Galaxies."
Broad Relevance
Graduate-level Textbook entitled,
"The Structure, Stability, and Dynamics of Self-Gravitating Systems"
Call, J. M., J. E. Tohline, and L. Lehner (2010), Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27, 175002.
"A Generalized Advection Formalism for Relativistic Fluid Simulations"
Cohl, H. S., A.R.P. Rau, J. E. Tohline, D.A. Browne, J.E. Cazes, and E. I. Barnes (2001), Physical Review A, 65, 052509 (1-5).
"Useful Alternative to the Multipole Expansion of 1/r Potentials."
Cohl, H. S. and J. E. Tohline, (1999), The Astrophysical Journal, 527, 86 - 101.
"A Compact Cylindrical Green's Function Expansion for the Solution of Potential Problems."
Tohline, J. E. and G. L. Bryan, (2000), Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE) Web Portal .
" Cosmology and Computation. "


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