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Context: The Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem provides a fundamental framework for understanding resonant dynamics in binary star systems. Aims: We develop a unified Hamiltonian formulation for mean-motion resonances that encompasses…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta

This paper presents a novel fuel-optimal guidance and control methodology for spacecraft swarm reconfiguration in Restricted Multi-Body Problems (RMBPs) with a guarantee of passive safety, maintaining miss distance even under abrupt loss of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Yuji Takubo , Walter Manuel , Ethan Foss , Simone D'Amico

This paper investigates the motion of a small particle moving near the triangular points of the Earth-Moon system. The dynamics are modeled in the Hill restricted 4-body problem (HR4BP), which includes the effect of the Earth and Moon as in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Luke T. Peterson , Gavin Brown , Àngel Jorba , Daniel Scheeres

We establish a criterion for the stability of planetary orbits in stellar binary systems by using Lyapunov exponents and power spectra for the special case of the circular restricted 3-body problem (CR3BP). The centerpiece of our method is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-08 B. Quarles , J. Eberle , Z. E. Musielak , M. Cuntz

The $N$-body problem is of historical significance because it was the first implementation of the Newtonian dynamical laws for the description of our Solar System. Motivated by this, the project's goal is to revisit this problem for small…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Achilleas Mavrakis , Konstantinos Kritos

We present a method for proving the existence of symmetric periodic, heteroclinic or homoclinic orbits in dynamical systems with the reversing symmetry. As an application we show that the Planar Restricted Circular Three Body Problem…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-10 D. Wilczak , P. Zgliczynski

In this paper, the L1-minimization for the translational motion of a spacecraft in a circular restricted three-body problem (CRTBP) is considered. Necessary con- ditions are derived by using the Pontryagin Maximum Principle, revealing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Zheng Chen

The restricted (equilateral) four-body problem consists of three bodies of masses m1, m2 and m3 (called primaries) lying in a Lagrangian configuration of the three-body problem i.e., they remain fixed at the apices of an equilateral…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Jaime Burgos-García , Joaquín Delgado

We intend to study a modified version of the planar Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem (CRTBP) by incorporating several perturbing parameters. We consider the bigger primary as an oblate spheroid and emitting radiation while the small…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-18 Ibnu Nurul Huda , Budi Dermawan , Muhammad Bayu Saputra , Rifki Sadikin , Taufiq Hidayat

We consider the planar circular equilateral restricted four body-problem where a test particle of infinitesimal mass is moving under the gravitational attraction of three primary bodies which move on circular orbits around their common…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

The aim of this paper is to numerically investigate the orbital dynamics of the circular planar restricted problem of five bodies. By numerically integrating several large sets of initial conditions of orbits we classify them into three…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-09 Euaggelos E. Zotos , K. E. Papadakis

The elliptic restricted three body problem has been well studied. However, the previous formulations of the problem have used a rotating coordinate system to keep the positions of the primary and secondary on the x-axis. This requires the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Robert W. Easton

In this work we introduce a planar restricted four-body problem where a massless particle moves under the gravitational influence due to three bodies following the eight figure choreography, and we explore some symmetric periodic orbits of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Ricardo Lara , Abimael Bengochea

The stability limit for circumbinary planets (CBPs) is not well defined and can depend on initial parameters defining either the planetary orbit or the inner binary orbit. We expand on the work of Holman & Wiegert (1999, AJ 117, 621) to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Billy Quarles , Suman Satyal , Veselin Kostov , Nathan Kaib , Nader Haghighipour

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

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

Comet-type periodic orbits of the circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP) are periodic solutions that are generated from very large retrograde and direct circular Keplerian motions around the common center of mass of the primaries.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Cengiz Aydin

We present a new time-stepping criterion for N-body simulations that is based on the true dynamical time of a particle. This allows us to follow the orbits of particles correctly in all environments since it has better adaptivity than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-12 Marcel Zemp , Joachim Stadel , Ben Moore , C. Marcella Carollo

This work presents the first application of the state-of-the-art Koenig-D'Amico reachable set theory solver to cislunar, chaotic relative motion in the Circular-Restricted Three-Body Problem (CR3BP). The relative motion dynamics of two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Matthew Hunter , Walter J. Manuel , Simone D'Amico

We consider a planetary system consisting of two primaries, namely a star and a giant planet, and a massless secondary, say a terrestrial planet or an asteroid, which moves under their gravitational attraction. We study the dynamics of this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , Anne-Sophie Libert