Publications

Below is a list of my publications, including peer-reviewed articles and preprints. See also my profiles on Google Scholar and NASA ADS.

My PhD thesis, “Secular Dynamics of Binaries in Stellar Clusters” (2021), is available here.

  1. [31] Modak, S., Hamilton, C., Ostriker, E.C. & Tremaine, S. “Interstellar Medium-Driven Orbital Transport — I. Radial Heating and Migration” Submitted to ApJ arXiv | NASA ADS

  2. [30] Tavangar, K., Johnston, K.V., Hunt, J.A.S., Widmark, A., Hamilton, C., Petersen, M.S. & Weinberg, M.D. “Phase spirals across galactic disks I: Exploring dynamical influences on winding” Submitted to ApJ arXiv | NASA ADS

  3. [29] Hamilton, C., Mummery, A. & Bland-Hawthorn, J. “On the radial velocity wave in the Galactic disk” Submitted to ApJ arXiv | NASA ADS

  4. [28] Hamilton, C., Modak, S. & Tremaine, S. “Galactokinetics II: Spiral structure” Submitted to ApJ arXiv | NASA ADS

  5. [27] Modak, S., Ostriker, E., Hamilton, C. & Tremaine, S. “Characterizing Density and Gravitational Potential Fluctuations of the Interstellar Medium” (2026) The Astrophysical Journal arXiv | NASA ADS

  6. [26] Hamilton, C. “On the maximum disk heating attributable to fuzzy dark matter” arXiv | NASA ADS

  7. [25] Hamilton, C., Modak, S. & Tremaine, S. “Why is the Galactic disk so cool?” Submitted to ApJ arXiv | NASA ADS

  8. [24] Hamilton, C., Modak, S. & Tremaine, S. “Galactokinetics” (2026) The Astrophysical Journal arXiv | NASA ADS

  9. [23] Chiba, R., Frankel, N. & Hamilton, C. “Origin of the two-armed vertical phase-spiral in the inner Galactic disk” (2025) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society arXiv | NASA ADS

  10. [22] Chiba, R., Ding, J., Hamilton, C., Kunz, M. W. & Tremaine, S. “Galactic echoes” (2025) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society arXiv | NASA ADS

  11. [21] Hamilton, C. & Fouvry, J.-B. “Kinetic Theory of Stellar Systems: A Tutorial” (2024) Physics of Plasmas arXiv | NASA ADS

  12. [20] Winter-Granic, M., Petrovich, C., Pena-Donaire, V. & Hamilton, C. “Binary mergers in the centers of galaxies: synergy between stellar flybys and tidal fields” (2024) The Astrophysical Journal arXiv | NASA ADS

  13. [19] Hamilton, C. & Modak, S. “Eccentricity dynamics of wide binaries – II. The effect of stellar encounters and constraints on formation channels” (2024) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society arXiv | NASA ADS

  14. [18] Hamilton, C. & Rafikov, R. R. “Relativistic phase space diffusion of compact object binaries in stellar clusters and hierarchical triples” (2024) The Astrophysical Journal arXiv | NASA ADS

  15. [17] Hamilton, C. “Saturation of spiral instabilities in disk galaxies” (2024) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society arXiv | NASA ADS

  16. [16] Hamilton, C. & Heinemann, T. “The linear response of stellar systems does not diverge at marginal stability” (2023) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society arXiv | NASA ADS

  17. [15] Modak, S. & Hamilton, C. “Eccentricity dynamics of wide binaries – I. The effect of Galactic tides” (2023) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society arXiv | NASA ADS

  18. [14] Yavetz, T. D., Johnston, K. V., Pearson, S., Price-Whelan, A. M. & Hamilton, C. “Stream Fanning and Bifurcations: Observable Signatures of Resonances in Stellar Stream Morphology” (2023) The Astrophysical Journal arXiv | NASA ADS

  19. [13] Hamilton, C., Tolman, E., Arzamasskiy, L. & Duarte, V. “Galactic bar resonances with diffusion: an analytic model with implications for bar-dark matter halo dynamical friction” (2023) The Astrophysical Journal arXiv | NASA ADS

  20. [12] Xu, S., Hwang, H.-C., Hamilton, C. & Lai, D. “Wide binary stars formed in the turbulent interstellar medium” (2023) The Astrophysical Journal Letters arXiv | NASA ADS

  21. [11] Hamilton, C. & Rafikov, R. R. “Anatomy of a slow merger: dissecting secularly-driven inspirals of LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave sources” (2022) The Astrophysical Journal arXiv | NASA ADS

  22. [10] Hwang, H.-C., El-Badry, K., Rix, H.-W., Hamilton, C., Ting, Y.-S. & Zakamska, N. “Wide twin binaries are extremely eccentric: evidence of twin binary formation in circumbinary disks” (2022) The Astrophysical Journal Letters arXiv | NASA ADS

  23. [9] Hamilton, C. “On the phase-mixed eccentricity and inclination distributions of wide binaries in the Galaxy” (2022) The Astrophysical Journal Letters arXiv | NASA ADS

  24. [8] Fouvry, J.-B., Hamilton, C., Rozier, S. & Pichon, C. “Resonant and non-resonant relaxation of globular clusters” (2021) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society arXiv | NASA ADS

  25. [7] Hamilton, C. & Heinemann, T. “Noise and waves: a unified kinetic theory for stellar systems” arXiv | NASA ADS

  26. [6] Hamilton, C. & Rafikov, R. R. “Secular dynamics of binaries in stellar clusters III: doubly-averaged dynamics in the presence of general relativistic precession” (2021) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society arXiv | NASA ADS

  27. [5] Hamilton, C. “A simple, heuristic derivation of the Balescu-Lenard kinetic equation for stellar systems” (2021) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society arXiv | NASA ADS

  28. [4] Hamilton, C. & Rafikov, R. R. “Secular dynamics of binaries in stellar clusters II: dynamical evolution” (2019) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society arXiv | NASA ADS

  29. [3] Hamilton, C. & Rafikov, R. R. “Secular dynamics of binaries in stellar clusters I: general formulation and dependence on cluster potential” (2019) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society arXiv | NASA ADS

  30. [2] Hamilton, C. & Rafikov, R. R. “Compact object binary mergers in stellar clusters: a new channel for LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave events” (2019) The Astrophysical Journal Letters arXiv | NASA ADS

  31. [1] Hamilton, C., Fouvry, J.-B., Binney, J. & Pichon, C. “Revisiting relaxation in globular clusters” (2018) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society arXiv | NASA ADS