Gauge Freedom in the N-body problem of Celestial Mechanics
Astrophysics
2012-12-04 v1
Abstract
We summarise research reported in (Efroimsky 2002, 2003; Efroimsky and Goldreich 2003a,b) and develop its application to planetary equations in non-inertial frames. We provide a practical example illustrating how the gauge formalism considerably simplifies the calculation of satellite motion about an oblate precessing planet.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0307130,
title = {Gauge Freedom in the N-body problem of Celestial Mechanics},
author = {Michael Efroimsky and Peter Goldreich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0307130},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Submitted to the "Astronomy and Astrophysics"