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We obtain the rigorous WKB expansion to all orders for the radial Kepler problem, using the residue calculus in evaluating the WKB quantization condition in terms of a complex contour integral in the complexified coordinate plane. The…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Valery Romanovski , Marko Robnik

The Kepler space mission has detected a large number of exoplanets in multiple transiting planet systems. Previous studies found that these Kepler multiple planet systems exhibit an intra-system uniformity, namely planets in the same system…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Chao-Feng Jiang , Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou

Perturbations of the Kerr black hole are notoriously difficult to describe in the metric formalism and are usually studied in terms of perturbations of the Weyl scalars. In this work, we focus on the algebraically special linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Jibril Ben Achour , Clara Montagnon , Hugo Roussille

The orbital boundary value problem, also known as Lambert Problem, is revisited. Building upon Lancaster and Blanchard approach, new relations are revealed and a new variable representing all problem classes, under L-similarity, is used to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Dario Izzo

Using relativistic tensor-bispinorial equations proposed in hep-th/0412213 we solve the Kepler problem for a charged particle with arbitrary half-integer spin interacting with the Coulomb potential.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Niederle , A. G. Nikitin

The vectorial velocity is given as a function of the position of a particle in orbit when a Newtonian central force is supplemented by an inverse cubic force as in Newton's theorem on revolving orbits. Such expressions are useful in fitting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Lynden-Bell

Classical (maximal) superintegrable systems in $n$ dimensions are Hamiltonian systems with $2n-1$ independent constants of the motion, globally defined, the maximum number possible. They are very special because they can be solved…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Yuxuan Chen , Ernie G. Kalnins , Qiushi Li , Willard Miller

Solar system, exoplanet and stellar science rely on transits, eclipses and occultations for dynamical and physical insight. Often, the geometry of these configurations are modelled by assuming a particular viewpoint. Here, instead, I derive…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Dimitri Veras

In this paper, we introduce a tensor neural network based machine learning method for solving the elliptic partial differential equations with random coefficients in a bounded physical domain. With the help of tensor product structure, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Hongtao Chen , Rui Fu , Yifan Wang , Hehu Xie

In this paper a new method for computation of higher order corrections to the saddle point approximation of the Feynman path integral is discussed. The saddle point approximation leads to local Schr\"odinger problems around classical…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Gabor Vattay

Orbit determination (OD) from three position vectors is one of the classical problems in astrodynamics. Early contributions to this problem were made by J. Willard Gibbs in the late 1800s and OD of this type is known today as ``Gibbs…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Michela Mancini , John A. Christian

You have a satellite spacecraft or asteroid that moves under the gravitational influence of a massive central body and follows a Keplerian orbit around it ellipse parabola or hyperbola Given measurements of two positions in its orbit what…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-08-06 Philip R. Blanco

The Doppler technique measures the reflex radial motion of a star induced by the presence of companions and is the most successful method to detect exoplanets. If several planets are present, their signals will appear combined in the radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 Guillem Anglada-Escude , Mercedes Lopez-Morales , John E. Chambers

We construct spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein-Euler equations, which contains a positive cosmological constant, say, the Einstein-Euler-de Sitter equations. We assume a realistic barotropic equation of state. Equilibria of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Tetu Makino

We assess the multi-planet systems discovered by the Kepler satellite in terms of current ideas about orbital migration and eccentricity damping due to planet-disk interactions. Our primary focus is on mean motion resonances. Only a few…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Peter Goldreich , Hilke E. Schlichting

A method to determine the admissibility of symbolic sequences and to find the unstable periodic orbits corresponding to allowed symbolic sequences for the diamagnetic Kepler problem is proposed by using the ordering of stable and unstable…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Zuo-Bing Wu , Jin-Yan Zeng

The radial component of the motion of compact binary systems composed of neutron stars and/or black holes on eccentric orbit is integrated. We consider all type of perturbations that emerge up to second post-Newtonian order. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-15 László Á. Gergely , Zoltán Keresztes , Balázs Mikóczi

The $Kepler$ $orbits$ form a 3-parameter family of $unparametrized$ plane curves, consisting of all conics sharing a focus at a fixed point. We study the geometry and symmetry properties of this family, as well as natural 2-parameter…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Gil Bor , Connor Jackman

The rosette-shaped motion of a particle in a central force field is known to be classically solvable by quadratures. We present a new approach of describing and characterizing such motion based on the eccentricity vector of the two body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jared M. Maruskin , Daniel J. Scheeres , Fred C. Adams , Anthony M. Bloch

An accurate closed-form expression is provided to predict the bending angle of light as a function of impact parameter for equatorial orbits around Kerr black holes of arbitrary spin. This expression is constructed by assuring that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-29 Nathaniel S. Barlow , Steven J. Weinstein , Joshua A. Faber