Orbital Stability of Planets in Binary Systems: A New Look at Old Results
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v2
Abstract
About half of all known stellar systems with Sun-like stars consist of two or more stars, significantly affecting the orbital stability of any planet in these systems. This observational evidence has prompted a large array of theoretical research, including the derivation of mathematically stringent criteria for the orbital stability of planets in stellar binary systems, valid for the "coplanar circular restricted three-body problem". In the following, we use these criteria to explore the validity of results from previous theoretical studies.
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@article{arxiv.0712.3239,
title = {Orbital Stability of Planets in Binary Systems: A New Look at Old Results},
author = {J. Eberle and M. Cuntz and Z. E. Musielak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.3239},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
3 pages, 1 figure; submitted to: Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics, IAU Symposium 249, eds. Y.-S. Sun, S. Ferraz-Mello, and J.-L. Zhou (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)