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Continuing work initiated in an earlier publication [Yamada, Tsuchiya, and Asada, Phys. Rev. D 91, 124016 (2015)], we reexamine the linear stability of the triangular solution in the relativistic three-body problem for general masses by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-08 Kei Yamada , Takuya Tsuchiya

The body of work presented here revolves around the investigation of the existence and nature of extra-solar planetary systems. The fitting of stellar radial velocity time series data is attempted by constructing a model to quantify the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-13 Gur Windmiller , Don Short , Jerome Orosz

Let a number, N, of particles interact classically through Newton's Laws of Motion and Newton's inverse square Law of Gravitation. The resulting equations of motion provide an approximate mathematical model with numerous applications in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas C. Heggie

In this paper, we study the chaotic four-body problem in Newtonian gravity. Assuming point particles and total encounter energies $\le$ 0, the problem has three possible outcomes. We describe each outcome as a series of discrete…

The increasing number and variety of extrasolar planets illustrates the importance of characterizing planetary perturbations. Planetary orbits are typically described by physically intuitive orbital elements. Here, we explicitly express the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Dimitri Veras , N. Wyn Evans

Using post-Newtonian equations of motion for fluid bodies that include radiation-reaction terms at 2.5 and 3.5 post-Newtonian (PN) order (O[(v/c)^5] and O[(v/c)^7] beyond Newtonian order), we derive the equations of motion for binary…

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The description of unstable motions in the Restricted Planar Circular 3-Body Problem, modeling the dynamics of a Sun-Planet-Asteriod system, is one of the fundamental problems in Celestial Mechanics. The goal of this paper is to analyze…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Inmaculada Baldomá , Mar Giralt , Marcel Guardia

The discovery of Pluto's small moons in the last decade brought attention to the dynamics of the dwarf planet's satellites. With such systems in mind, we study a planar $N$-body system in which all the bodies are point masses, except for a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 James A. Kwiecinski , Attila Kovacs , Andrew L. Krause , Ferran Brosa Planella , Robert A. Van Gorder

Linear theory is used to determine the stability of the self-gravitating, rapidly (and nonuniformly) rotating, two-dimensional, and collisional particulate disk against small-amplitude gravity perturbations. A gas-kinetic theory approach is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Evgeny Griv , Michael Gedalin , David Eichler , Chi Yuan

We investigate the qualitative characteristics of a test particle attracted to an irregular elongated body, modeled as a non-homogeneous straight segment with a variable linear density. By deriving the potential function in closed form, we…

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We study a general relativistic gravitomagnetic 3-body effect induced by the spin angular momentum ${\boldsymbol S}_\textrm{X}$ of a rotating mass $M_\textrm{X}$ orbited at distance $r_\textrm{X}$ by a local gravitationally bound restricted…

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In this work, we study the periodic orbits in the spatial isosceles three-body problem. These periodic orbits form a one-parameter set with a rotation angle $\theta$ as the parameter. Some new phenomenons are discovered by applying our…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-30 Duokui Yan , Tiancheng Ouyang

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

Many exo-solar systems discovered in the last decade consist of planets orbiting in resonant configurations and consequently, their evolution should show long-term stability. However, due to the mutual planetary interactions a multi-planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-12 George Voyatzis , Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , John D. Hadjidemetriou

Recent work in the literature has advocated using the Earth-Moon-planetoid Lagrangian points as observables, in order to test general relativity and effective field theories of gravity in the solar system. However, since the three-body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-26 Emmanuele Battista , Simone Dell'Agnello , Giampiero Esposito , Luciano Di Fiore , Jules Simo , Aniello Grado

The escape mechanism of orbits in a star cluster rotating around its parent galaxy in a circular orbit is investigated. A three degrees of freedom model is used for describing the dynamical properties of the Hamiltonian system. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-24 Euaggelos E. Zotos , Christof Jung

More than 10% of extra-solar planets (EPs) orbit in a binary or multiple stellar system. We investigated the motion of planets revolving in binary systems in the frame of the particular case of the three body problem. We carried out an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 E. Plávalová , N. A. Solovaya

We perform numerical analysis to study the orbits described by subwavelength size particles interacting with structured light beams. Our solution to the particle dynamics considers: (i) the gradient force, (ii) the radiation pressure, and…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-02 Manuel F. Ferrer-Garcia , Dorilian Lopez-Mago