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Periodic orbits are fundamental to understand the dynamics of nonlinear systems. In this work, we focus on two aspects of interest regarding periodic orbits, in the context of a dissipative mapping, derived from a prototype model of a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-22 Danilo Rodrigues de Lima , Iberê Luiz Caldas

This paper introduces a new global dynamics and chaos indicator based on the method of Lagrangian Descriptor apt for discriminating ordered and deterministic chaotic motions in multidimensional systems. The selected implementation of this…

The number of resident space objects is rising at an alarming rate. Mega-constellations and breakup events are proliferating in most orbital regimes, and safe navigation is becoming increasingly problematic. It is important to be able to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Yannick Sztamfater Garcia , Joaquin Miguez , Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo

Nonlinear dynamical systems are ubiquitous in nature and they are hard to forecast. Not only they may be sensitive to small perturbations in their initial conditions, but they are often composed of processes acting at multiple scales.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-06 Chenyu Dong , Davide Faranda , Adriano Gualandi , Valerio Lucarini , Gianmarco Mengaldo

Multiplanetary systems are excellent laboratories for studying the formation and evolution of exoplanets inside the same stellar environment. The number of known multiplanetary systems is expected to skyrocket with the advent of PLATO and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 A. Bocchieri , J. Zak , D. Turrini

Here we present an initial look at the dynamics and stability of 178 multiplanetary systems which are already confirmed and listed in the NASA Exoplanet Archive. To distinguish between the chaotic and regular nature of a system, the value…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 Pavol Gajdoš , Martin Vaňko

We study the modeling and prediction of dynamical systems based on conventional models derived from measurements. Such algorithms are highly desirable in situations where the underlying dynamics are hard to model from physical principles or…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-08-03 Markus Quade , Markus Abel , Kamran Shafi , Robert K. Niven , Bernd R. Noack

In the present article, we introduce and also deploy a new, simple, very fast and efficient method, the Fast Norm Vector Indicator (FNVI) in order to distinguish rapidly and with certainty between ordered and chaotic motion in Hamiltonian…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

Eulerian and Lagrangian tools are used to detect coherent structures in the velocity and magnetic fields of a mean--field dynamo, produced by direct numerical simulations of the three--dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-21 Erico L. Rempel , Abraham C. -L. Chian , Axel Brandenburg , Pablo R. Muñoz

In order to distinguish between regular and chaotic planetary orbits we apply a new technique called MEGNO in a wide neighbourhood of orbital parameters determined using standard two-body Keplerian fits for HD 12661, HD 38529, HD 37124 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ludmila Kiseleva-Eggleton , Eric Bois , Nicolas Rambaux , Rudolf Dvorak

In the present article, we present a new gravitational galactic model, describing motion in elliptical as well as in disk galaxies, by suitably choosing the dynamical parameters. Moreover, a new dynamical parameter, the S(g) spectrum, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-03 Euaggelos E. Zotos

This paper introduces coordinate-independent methods for analysing multiscale dynamical systems using numerical techniques based on the transfer operator and its adjoint. In particular, we present a method for testing whether an arbitrary…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Gary Froyland , Georg A. Gottwald , Andy Hammerlindl

Many of exoplanetary systems consist of more than one planet and the study of planetary orbits with respect to their long-term stability is very interesting. Furthermore, many exoplanets seem to be locked in a mean-motion resonance (MMR),…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou

Several tools have been developed in the past few years for the statistical analysis of the exoplanet search surveys, mostly using a combination of Monte-Carlo simulations or a Bayesian approach.Here we present the Quick-MESS, a grid-based,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mariangela Bonavita , Ernst J. W. de Mooij , Ray Jayawardhana

In this paper, we present a large-scale dynamical survey of the trans-Neptunian region, with particular attention to mean-motion resonances (MMRs). We study a set of 4121 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), a sample far larger than in previous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 E. Forgács-Dajka , E. Kővári , T. Kovács , Cs. Kiss , Zs. Sándor

Sampling from a complex distribution $\pi$ and approximating its intractable normalizing constant Z are challenging problems. In this paper, a novel family of importance samplers (IS) and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) samplers is derived.…

We describe the phase space structures related to the semi-major axis of Molniya-like satellites subject to tesseral and lunisolar resonances. In particular, the questions answered in this contribution are: (i) we study the indirect…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-25 Jerome Daquin , Elisa Maria Alessi , Joseph O'Leary , Anne Lemaitre , Alberto Buzzoni

This review attempts to place the observations of extragalactic planetary nebulae in the context of galactic dynamics. From this point of view only the radial velocities of the PNe are important. We have built a specialised instrument to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nigel G. Douglas

Based on the scaling relation for the dynamics at the early time, a new method is proposed to measure both the static and dynamic critical exponents. The method is applied to the two dimensional Ising model. The results are in good…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Z. B. Li , L. Schuelke , B. Zheng