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We present an efficient method for fast, complete, and accurate detection of unstable periodic orbits in chaotic systems. Our method consists of a new iterative scheme and an effective technique for selecting initial points. The iterative…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Ruslan L. Davidchack , Ying-Cheng Lai

If an orbit is fitted from combined RV and astrometric data, the orbit should be physically consistent with both data sets. The Keplerian orbit of a planet is a highly nonlinear function of seven parameters. The astrometric orbit problem…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-23 Joseph H. Catanzarite

We are interested in stable periodic orbits for spacecrafts in the gravitational field of minor celestial bodies. The stable periodic orbits around minor celestial bodies are useful not only for the mission design of the deep space…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-29 Yu Jiang , Juergen Schmidt , Hengnian Li , Xiaodong Liu , Yue Yang

Knowledge of the orbits of visual binary stars has always been one of the fundamentals of astronomy. Based historically on the visual measures, nowadays the orbits rely more (or exclusively) on the accurate speckle data. This prompts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Andrei Tokovinin

We provide an analytical approximation to the dynamics in each of the three most important low order secondary resonances (1:1, 2:1, and 3:1) bifurcating from the synchronous primary resonance in the gravitational spin-orbit problem. To…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 Ioannis Gkolias , Christos Efthymiopoulos , Alessandra Celletti , Giuseppe Pucacco

The combination of visual and spectroscopic orbits in binary systems enables precise distance measurements without additional assumptions, making them ideal for examining the parallax zero-point offset (PZPO) at bright magnitudes (G < 13)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-17 Ye Ding , Shilong Liao , Shangyu Wen , Zhaoxiang Qi

The orbits of binary stars and planets, particularly eccentricities and inclinations, encode the angular momentum within these systems. Within stellar multiple systems, the magnitude and (mis)alignment of angular momentum vectors among…

The Gaia optical astrometric mission has measured the precise positions of millions of objects in the sky, including extragalactic sources also observed by Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). In the recent Gaia EDR3 release, an effect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-10 Oleg Titov , Angelina Osetrova

In its all-sky survey, Gaia will monitor astrometrically hundreds of thousands of main-sequence stars within $\approx200$ pc, looking for the presence of giant planetary companions within a few AUs from their host stars. Indeed, Gaia…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-18 A. Sozzetti

A well-behaved adjoint sensitivity technique for chaotic dynamical systems is presented. The method arises from the specialisation of established variational techniques to the unstable periodic orbits of the system. On such trajectories,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-12 Davide Lasagna

We investigated the reliability of the genetic algorithm which will be used to invert the photometric measurements of asteroids collected by the European Space Agency Gaia mission. To do that, we performed several sets of simulations for 10…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Santana-Ros , P. Bartczak , T. Michałowski , P. Tanga , A. Cellino

We present a novel empirical method for correcting asteroid phase curves for rotational and geometrical effects using precomputed spin-and-shape models. Our approach normalizes sparse photometric data to a pole-on geometry, enabling…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Dagmara Oszkiewicz. Przemysław Bartczak , Milagros Colazo , Antti Penttilä

The properties of long, numerically-determined periodic orbits of two low-dimensional chaotic systems, the Lorenz equations and the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky system in a minimal-domain configuration, are examined. The primary question is to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-30 Davide Lasagna

Energy level statistics of quantized chaotic systems have been evaluated in the semiclassical limit via their periodic orbits using the Gutzwiller and related trace formulae. Here we evaluate a spectral statistic of chaotic 4-regular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Jon Harrison , Tori Hudgins

The recent paper claims that mean characteristics of chaotic orbits differ from the corresponding values averaged over the set of unstable periodic orbits, embedded in the chaotic attractor. We demonstrate that the alleged discrepancy is an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-27 Michael A. Zaks , Denis S. Goldobin

Orbital inclination is crucial in determining the mass of the binary. The astrometric excess noise contain the orbital motion information, which can be used to constrain the inclination. We aim to constrain the orbital inclination of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Shilong Liao , Ye Ding , Shangyu Wen , Zhaoxiang Qi , Qiqi Wu

Here we present speckle observations of 16 low-separation ($s<30$ AU) high probability candidate binaries from the catalog by Medan et al., where secondaries typically lack astrometric solutions in Gaia. From these speckle observations, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Ilija Medan , Sébastien Lépine , Zachary Hartman , Keivan G. Stassun

Short-arc orbit determination is crucial when an asteroid is first discovered. In these cases usually the observations are so few that the differential correction procedure may not converge. We have developed an initial orbit computation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 F. Spoto , A. Del Vigna , A. Milani , G. Tommei , P. Tanga , F. Mignard , B. Carry , W. Thuillot , P. David

A topological approach and understanding to the detection of unstable periodic orbits based on a recently proposed method (PRL 78, 4733 (1997)) is developed. This approach provides a classification of the set of transformations necessary…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Detlef Pingel , Peter Schmelcher , Fotis Diakonos , Ofer Biham

The census of stellar and substellar companions of nearby stars is largely incomplete. It is, however, fundamentally important in the understanding of the stellar and planetary formation and evolution mechanisms. We aim to characterize the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Pierre Kervella , Frédéric Arenou , François Mignard , Frédéric Thévenin