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The purpose of this paper is to investigate vertical self-resonant (VSR) bifurcations from the distant retrograde orbit (DRO) family in the framework of the Earth-Moon circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP). To this end, by using a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Cengiz Aydin

We construct a Nekhoroshev-like result of stability with sharp constants for the planar three body problem, both in the planetary and in the restricted circular case, by using the periodic averaging technique. Our constructions can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Santiago Barbieri , Laurent Niederman

High-dimensional visual computer models are poised to revolutionize the space mission design process. The circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP) gives rise to high-dimensional toroidal manifolds that are of immense interest to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Dante Basile , Xavier Tricoche , Martin Lo

Invariant manifolds are the skeleton of the chaotic dynamics in Hamiltonian systems. In Celestial Mechanics, for instance, these geometrical structures are applied to a multitude of physical and practical problems, such as to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-10 Vitor Martins de Oliveira

Isolating block and isolating neighborhood methods have previously been implemented to find transit trajectories and orbits around libration points in the autonomous circular restricted three-body problem. For some applications, the direct…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Rodney L. Anderson , Robert W. Easton , Martin W. Lo

We perform an analytical study of the bifurcation of the halo orbits around the collinear points $L_1$, $L_2$, $L_3$ for the circular, spatial, restricted three--body problem. Following a standard procedure, we reduce to the center manifold…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Marta Ceccaroni , Alessandra Celletti , Giuseppe Pucacco

The three-body problem is famously chaotic, with no closed-form analytical solutions. However, hierarchical systems of three or more bodies can be stable over indefinite timescales. A system is considered hierarchical if the bodies can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Max Tory , Evgeni Grishin , Ilya Mandel

In Hamiltonian systems subjected to periodic perturbations the stable and unstable manifolds of the unstable periodic orbits provide the dynamical "skeleton" that drives the mixing process and bounds the chaotic regions of the phase space.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 David Ciro Taborda , Todd Edwin Evans , Iberê Luiz Caldas

We study the dynamics of the collinear points in the planar, restricted three-body problem, assuming that the primaries move on an elliptic orbit around a common barycenter. The equations of motion can be conveniently written in a rotating…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Alessandra Celletti , Christoph Lhotka , Giuseppe Pucacco

Context: The Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem provides a fundamental framework for understanding resonant dynamics in binary star systems. Aims: We develop a unified Hamiltonian formulation for mean-motion resonances that encompasses…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta

We consider a planetary system consisting of two primaries, namely a star and a giant planet, and a massless secondary, say a terrestrial planet or an asteroid, which moves under their gravitational attraction. We study the dynamics of this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , Anne-Sophie Libert

The three-body problem has been studied for more than three centuries [1,2], and has received much attention in recent years [3-5]. It shows complex dynamical phenomena due to the mutual gravitational interaction of the three bodies. Triple…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-05 Xiaoming Li , Xiaochen Li , Shijun Liao

A unified framework is proposed to quantitatively characterize pitchfork bifurcations and associated symmetry breaking in the elliptic restricted three-body problem (ERTBP). It is known that planar/vertical Lyapunov orbits and Lissajous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Haozhe Shu , Mingpei Lin

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

The aim of this paper is to numerically investigate the orbital dynamics of the circular planar restricted problem of five bodies. By numerically integrating several large sets of initial conditions of orbits we classify them into three…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-09 Euaggelos E. Zotos , K. E. Papadakis

We describe a method for computing an atlas for the stable or unstable manifold attached to an equilibrium point, and implement the method for the saddle-focus libration points of the planar equilateral restricted four body problem. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Shane Kepley , J. D. Mireles James

We consider the elliptic three body problem as a perturbation of the circular problem. We show that for sufficiently small eccentricities of the elliptic problem, and for energies sufficiently close to the energy of the libration point L2,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Maciej J. Capinski , Piotr Zgliczynski

The goal of this paper it to prove existence theorems for one parameter families (branches) of ejection-collision orbits in the planar circular restricted three body problem (CRTBP), and to study some of their bifurcations. The orbits…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Gianni Arioli , James D. Mireles James

The Hilda group is a set of asteroids whose mean motion is in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Jupiter. In this paper we use the planar Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem (CRTBP) as a dynamical model and we show that there exists a family…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Àngel Jorba , Begoña Nicolás , Óscar Rodríguez

In this paper we consider the planar circular restricted three body problem (PCRTBP), which models the motion of a massless body under the attraction of other two bodies, the primaries, which describe circular orbits around their common…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Marcel Guardia , José Lamas , Tere M. Seara