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Applying the technique of dynamical maps we study the orbital stability of test particles in the Solar System in the space (a,e,i) defined by 0.1<a<38 au, 0<e<0.9 and 0<i<180 identifying the unstable and stable regions. We find stable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Tabare Gallardo

Recent work on the equilibrium and stability of ellipsoidal stellar systems is reviewed. The absence of constant-density cores in early-type galaxies implies that chaos and high-order resonances are generic features of the motion in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Merritt , Tema Fridman

Starobinsky gravity, as one of the simplest and best-behaved higher-curvature gravity theories, has been extensively studied in the context of neutron stars over the past few decades. In this work, we investigate the adiabatic radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Ziyi Li , Zhong-Xi Yu , Zhe Luo , Shoulong Li , Hongwei Yu

The r-mode instability in rotating relativistic stars has been shown recently to have important astrophysical implications (including the emission of detectable gravitational radiation, the explanation of the initial spins of young neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Nikolaos Stergioulas , Jose A. Font

This paper investigates the long-term orbital stability of small bodies near the central binary of the Alpha Centauri system. Test particles on circular orbits are integrated in the field of this binary for 32000 binary periods or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Paul A. Wiegert , Matt Holman

Planetary rings sustain a continual bombardment of hypervelocity meteoroids that erode the surfaces of ring particles on time scales of 10^5 - 10^7 years. The debris ejected from such impacts re-accretes on to the ring, though often at a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Henrik Latter , Gordon Ogilvie , Marie Chupeau

We investigate existence, stability, and instability of anchored rotating spiral waves in a model for geometric curve evolution. We find existence in a parameter regime limiting on a purely eikonal curve evolution. We study stability and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-06 Anthony Cortez , Nan Li , Nathan Mihm , Alice Xu , Xiaoxing Yu , Arnd Scheel

In this review, I discuss just three aspects of the stability and evolution of galactic discs. (1) I first review our understanding of the bar instability and how it can be controlled. Disc galaxies in which the orbital speed does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Sellwood

We have performed a series of high resolution N-body experiments on a Connection Machine CM-5 in order to study the stability of collisionless self-gravitating spherical systems. We interpret our results in the framework of symplectic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Perez , J-M Alimi , J-J Aly , H. Scholl

Self-similarity of systems is very popular and intensively developing field during last decades. To this field belong so-called stable distributions and their generalization. In Klebanov and Sl\'amov\'a (2014) there was given an approach to…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Lev B. Klebanov , Lenka Slámová , Ashot Kakosyan , Gregory Temnov

With $n$-body simulations we investigate the stability of tilted circumbinary planetary systems consisting of two nonzero mass planets. The planets are initially in circular orbits that are coplanar to each other, as would be expected if…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Cheng Chen , Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin , C. J. Nixon

The purpose of this paper is to prove that, for a large class of nonlinear evolution equations known as scalar viscous balance laws, the spectral (linear) instability condition of periodic traveling wave solutions implies their orbital…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Enrique Álvarez , Jaime Angulo Pava , Ramón G. Plaza

It is well established that certain detached eclipsing binary stars exhibit apsidal motions whose value is in disagreement with with calculated deviations from Keplerian motion based on tidal effects and the general theory of relativity.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Khodykin , A. I. Zakharov , W. L. Andersen

The stability of a rotating fluid disk to the formation of spiral arms is studied in the tightwinding approximation in the linear regime. The dispersion relation for spirals that was derived by Bertin et al. is shown to contain a new,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. E. Montenegro , C. Yuan , B. G. Elmegreen

We study the stability of odd-dimensional rotating black holes with equal angular momenta by performing an expansion in the inverse of the number of dimensions D. Universality at large $D$ allows us to calculate analytically the complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-07 Roberto Emparan , Ryotaku Suzuki , Kentaro Tanabe

We discuss two important instability mechanisms that may lead to the limit-cycle oscillations of the luminosity of the accretion disks around compact objects: ionization instability and radiation-pressure instability. Ionization instability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bożena Czerny

The motion of a satellite around a planet can be studied by the Hill model, which is a modification of the restricted three body problem pertaining to motion of a satellite around a planet. Although the dynamics of the circular Hill model…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 G. Voyatzis , I. Gkolias , H. Varvoglis

The orbits in the HD 160691 planetary system at first appeared highly unstable, but using the MEGNO and FLI techniques of global dynamics analysis in the orbital parameter space we have found a stabilizing mechanism that could be the key to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric Bois , Ludmila Kiseleva-Eggleton , Nicolas Rambaux , Elke Pilat-Lohinger

We consider an autonomous differential system in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with a periodic orbit and we give a new method for computing the characteristic multipliers associated to it. Our method works when the periodic orbit is given by the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Armengol Gasull , Hector Giacomini , Maite Grau

Poincar\'e's work more than one century ago, or Laskar's numerical simulations from the 1990's on, have irrevocably impaired the long-held belief that the Solar System should be stable. But mathematical mechanisms explaining this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Andrew Clarke , Jacques Fejoz , Marcel Guardia