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We herein utilize the general three-body problem (GTBP) as a model, in order to simulate resonant systems consisting of a star and two planets, where at least one of them is highly eccentric. We study them in terms of their long-term…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-10 K. I. Antoniadou , G. Voyatzis

The results of an extensive numerical study of the periodic orbits of planar, elliptic restricted three-body planetary systems consisting of a star, an inner massive planet and an outer mass-less body in the external 1:2 mean-motion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nader Haghighipour , Jocelyn Couetdic , Ferenc Varadi , William B. Moore

In the preliminary design of space missions it can be useful to identify regions of dynamics that drive the system's behaviour or separate qualitatively different dynamics. The Lagrangian Coherent Structure (LCS) has been widely used in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-26 Jack Tyler , Alexander Wittig

General properties of the three-body problem in a model of modified dynamics are investigated. It is shown that the three-body problem in this model shares some characters with the similar problem in Newtonian dynamics. Moreover, the planar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-14 Hossein Shenavar

In many exoplanetary systems with `hot Jupiters', it is observed that the spin axes of host stars are highly misaligned to planetary orbital axes. In this study, a possible channel is investigated for producing such a misalignment under a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Hanlun Lei , Yan-Xiang Gong

The three-body problem, which describes three masses interacting through Newtonian gravity without any restrictions imposed on the initial positions and velocities of these masses, has attracted the attention of many scientists for more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-11 Z. E. Musielak , B. Quarles

The multiple-planet systems discovered by the Kepler mission exhibit the following feature: planet pairs near first-order mean-motion resonances prefer orbits just outside the nominal resonance, while avoiding those just inside the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-24 Cristobal Petrovich , Renu Malhotra , Scott Tremaine

Effect of stellar electromagnetic radiation on motion of spherical dust particle in mean-motion orbital resonances with a planet is investigated. Planar circular restricted three-body problem with the Poynting-Robertson (P-R) effect yields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-01 P. Pastor , J. Klacka , L. Komar

The majority of the discovered transiting circumbinary planets are located very near the innermost stable orbits permitted, raising questions about the origins of planets in such perturbed environments. Most favored formation scenarios…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Adam P. Sutherland , Kaitlin M. Kratter

The goal of this paper is to obtain an approximate solution of the restricted three-body problem in the case of small perturbations in the vicinity of, but not in exact resonance. In this paper, we study the restricted threebody problem…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Alexey Rosaev , Eva Plavalova , Pavel Nesterov

The influence of the irregular forces on the evolution of a triple hierarchical stellar system moving in the field of stars have been studied. Triple hierarchical stellar systems are stable in contrary to the stellar systems with comparable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-25 Nina A. Solovaya

Consider the Restricted Planar Circular Three Body Problem (RPC3BP), which models the motion of a massless particle (Asteroid) under the gravitational influence of two massive bodies (the primaries) moving on circular orbits. By considering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Marcel Guardia , José Lamas , Tere M-Seara

The focus of this work is the current distribution of asteroids in co-orbital motion with Venus, Earth and Jupiter, under a quasi-coplanar configuration and for a medium-term timescale of the order of 900 years. A co-orbital trajectory is a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Sara Di Ruzza , Alexandre Pousse , Elisa Maria Alessi

Planets around binary stars and those in multiplanet systems may experience resonant eccentricity excitation and disruption due to perturbations from a distant stellar companion. This "evection resonance" occurs when the apsidal precession…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Wenrui Xu , Dong Lai

Context: Resonances in the stellar orbital motion under perturbations from spiral arms structure play an important role in the evolution of the disks of spiral galaxies. The epicyclic approximation allows the determination of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-20 Tatiana A. Michtchenko , Ronaldo S. S. Vieira , Douglas A. Barros , Jacques R. D. Lépine

Hamiltonian normal forms allow for the analytical approximation of center manifold trajectories and their invariant manifolds through the separation of the saddle and center subspaces that make up the dynamics at the collinear libration…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Carson Hunsberger , David Schwab , Roshan Eapen , Puneet Singla

The traditional approach to analyzing mean motion resonances is through canonical perturbation theory. While this is a powerful method, its generality leads to complicated combinations of variables that are challenging to interpret and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Daniel Tamayo , Samuel Hadden

We study the secular gravitational dynamics of quadruple systems consisting of a hierarchical triple system orbited by a fourth body. These systems can be decomposed into three binary systems with increasing semimajor axes, binaries A, B…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-10 Adrian S. Hamers , Hagai B. Perets , Fabio Antonini , Simon F. Portegies Zwart

Nowadays, many extrasolar planetary systems possessing at least one planet on a highly eccentric orbit have been discovered. In this work, we study the possible long-term stability of such systems. We consider the general three body problem…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-09 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , George Voyatzis

Gravitational perturbations in multi-planet systems caused by an accompanying star are the subject of this investigation. Our dynamical model is based on the binary star HD41004 AB where a giant planet orbits HD41004 A. We modify the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Elke Pilat-Lohinger , Akos Bazso , Barbara Funk