English
Related papers

Related papers: N-body integrators for planets in binary star syst…

200 papers

Periodic solutions of the three body problem are very important for understanding its dynamics either in a theoretical framework or in various applications in celestial mechanics. In this paper we discuss the computation and continuation of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-04 George Voyatzis

Multisymplectic variational integrators are structure preserving numerical schemes especially designed for PDEs derived from covariant spacetime Hamilton principles. The goal of this paper is to study the properties of the temporal and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-18 François Demoures , François Gay-Balmaz , Tudor S. Ratiu

Many important physical systems can be described as the evolution of a Hamiltonian system, which has the important property of being conservative, that is, energy is conserved throughout the evolution. Physics Informed Neural Networks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Harsh Choudhary , Chandan Gupta , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Melvin Leok , Georgios Korpas

This paper presents a study of the use of numerical simulation and Bayesian optimisation techniques to investigate the dynamics of celestial systems. Initially, the study focuses on Lagrange points in restricted three-body systems where a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-28 Eirik Fladmark , Teodora Reu , Laura Brinkholm Justesen

Context: Numerous theoretical studies of the stellar dynamics of triple systems have been carried out, but fewer purely empirical studies that have addressed planetary orbits within these systems. Most of these empirical studies have been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-21 F. Busetti , H. Beust , C. Harley

Most numerical integration algorithms are not designed specifically for Hamiltonian systems and do not respect their characteristic properties, which include the preservation of phase space volume with time. This can lead to spurious…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 David JD Earn

We describe an algorithm for constructing N-body realisations of equilibrium stellar systems. The algorithm complements existing orbit-based modelling techniques using linear programming or other optimization algorithms. The equilibria are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Syer , S. Tremaine

The past few years have seen dramatic improvements in the scope and realism of star cluster simulations. Accurate treatments of stellar evolution, coupled with robust descriptions of all phases of binary evolution, have been incorporated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen L. W. McMillan

We construct an advanced model for interacting multiple stellar systems in which we compute all trajectories with a numerical N-body integrator, namely the Bulirsch--Stoer from the SWIFT package. We can then derive various observables:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 M. Brož

Symplectic integrators evolve dynamical systems according to modified Hamiltonians whose error terms are also well-defined Hamiltonians. The error of the algorithm is the sum of each error Hamiltonian's perturbation on the exact solution.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Siu A. Chin

Lie-integration is one of the most efficient algorithms for numerical integration of ordinary differential equations if high precision is needed for longer terms. The method is based on the computation of the Taylor-coefficients of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 András Pál

Stability is one of the most fundamental aspects regarding planetary systems. It plays an important role in our understanding on the formation channel of the planetary systems, as well as their habitability. Many approaches have been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-22 Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar , Nathaniel W. H. Moore , Jiapeng Gao , Gongjie Li , Billy Quarles

We present a method for studying the secular gravitational dynamics of hierarchical multiple systems consisting of nested binaries, which is valid for an arbitrary number of bodies and arbitrary hierarchical structure. We derive the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-10 Adrian S. Hamers , Simon F. Portegies Zwart

This letter studies symmetric and symplectic exponential integrators when applied to numerically computing nonlinear Hamiltonian systems. We first establish the symmetry and symplecticity conditions of exponential integrators and then show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Yajun Wu , Bin Wang

We show that symplectic Runge-Kutta methods provide effective symplectic integrators for Hamiltonian systems with index one constraints. These include the Hamiltonian description of variational problems subject to position and velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Robert I McLachlan , Klas Modin , Olivier Verdier , Matt Wilkins

We extend the results of planetary formation synthesis by computing the long-term evolution of synthetic systems from the clearing of the gas disk into the dynamical evolution phase. We use the symplectic integrator SyMBA to numerically…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Pfyffer , Y. Alibert , W. Benz , D. Swoboda

We present new splitting methods designed for the numerical integration of near-integrable Hamiltonian systems, and in particular for planetary N-body problems, when one is interested in very accurate results over a large time span. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Sergio Blanes , Fernando Casas , Ariadna Farres , Jacques Laskar , Joseba Makazaga , Ander Murua

Symplectic integration methods based on operator splitting are well established in many branches of science. For Hamiltonian systems which split in more than two parts, symplectic methods of higher order have been studied in detail only for…

Nonadiabatic behavior of metastable systems modeled by anharmonic Hamiltonians is reproduced by the Fokker-Planck and imaginary time Schrodinger equation scheme with subsequent symplectic integration. Example solutions capture ergodicity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Klotins

We propose to use the properties of the Lie algebra of the angular momentum to build symplectic integrators dedicated to the Hamiltonian of the free rigid body. By introducing a dependence of the coefficients of integrators on the moments…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 J. Laskar , T. Vaillant