A Fast and Accurate Universal Kepler Solver without Stumpff Series
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2017-03-03 v3 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract
We derive and present a fast and accurate solution of the initial value problem for Keplerian motion in universal variables that does not use the Stumpff series. We find that it performs better than methods based on the Stumpff series.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.02699,
title = {A Fast and Accurate Universal Kepler Solver without Stumpff Series},
author = {Jack Wisdom and David M. Hernandez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02699},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
10 pages, 7 figures. Accepted by MNRAS, resubmitted because of a typo in the title, added author affiliations