Eccentricity generation in hierarchical triple systems with non-coplanar and initially circular orbits
Abstract
In a previous paper, we developed a technique for estimating the inner eccentricity in coplanar hierarchical triple systems on initially circular orbits, with comparable masses and with well separated components, based on an expansion of the rate of change of the Runge-Lenz vector. Now, the same technique is extended to non-coplanar orbits. However, it can only be applied to systems with or , where is the inclination of the two orbits, because of complications arising from the so-called 'Kozai effect'. The theoretical model is tested against results from numerical integrations of the full equations of motion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1408.6262,
title = {Eccentricity generation in hierarchical triple systems with non-coplanar and initially circular orbits},
author = {Nikolaos Georgakarakos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6262},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
This is a preprint of an article published in 'Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy' in 2004. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1408.5462, arXiv:1408.5890