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Numerical investigation on the Hill's type lunar problem with homogeneous potential

Chaotic Dynamics 2022-05-17 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We consider the planar Hill's lunar problem with a homogeneous gravitational potential. The investigation of the system is twofold. First, the starting conditions of the trajectories are classified into three classes, that is bounded, escaping, and collisional. Second, we study the no-return property of the Lagrange point L2L_2 and we observe that the escaping trajectories are scattered exponentially. Moreover, it is seen that in the supercritical case, with α2\alpha \geq 2, the basin boundaries are smooth. On the other hand, in the subcritical case, with α<2\alpha < 2 the boundaries between the different types of basins exhibit fractal properties.

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@article{arxiv.1910.02512,
  title  = {Numerical investigation on the Hill's type lunar problem with homogeneous potential},
  author = {Yanxia Deng and Slim Ibrahim and Euaggelos E. Zotos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.02512},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages, 10 figures