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In the present article, we present a galactic gravitational model of three degrees of freedom, in order to investigate and reveal the behavior of orbits in a binary quasar system. The two quasars are hosted in a pair of interacting disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-18 Euaggelos E. Zotos

A 3D dynamical model with a quasi-homogeneous core and a disk component is used for the chaos control in the central parts of elliptical galaxy. Numerical experiments in the 2D system show a very complicated phase plane with a large chaotic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Euaggelos E. Zotos

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

We study the nature of motion in a 3D potential composed of perturbed elliptic oscillators. Our technique is to use the results obtained from the 2D potential in order to find the initial conditions generating regular or chaotic orbits in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-06-26 Nicolaos D. Caranicolas , Euaggelos E. Zotos

The aim of this work is to provide an analytical model to characterize the equilibrium points and the phase space associated with the singly-averaged dynamics caused by the planetary oblateness coupled with the solar radiation pressure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 Elisa Maria Alessi , Camilla Colombo , Alessandro Rossi

This paper investigates the dynamics of a particle orbiting around a rotating homogeneous cube, and shows fruitful results that have implications for examining the dynamics of orbits around non-spherical celestial bodies. This study can be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-25 Xiaodong Liu , Hexi Baoyin , Xingrui Ma

The behaviour of resonances in the spin-orbit coupling in Celestial Mechanics is investigated. We introduce a Hamiltonian nearly-integrable model describing an approximation of the spin-orbit interaction. A parametric representation of…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandra Celletti , Luigi Chierchia

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

Astrophysical objects frequently exhibit some irregularities or complex behaviour in their light curves. We focus primarily on hot stars, where both radial and non-radial pulsations are observed. One of the primary research goals is to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Votruba , P. Koubský , D. Korčáková , F. Hroch

Many of exoplanetary systems consist of more than one planet and the study of planetary orbits with respect to their long-term stability is very interesting. Furthermore, many exoplanets seem to be locked in a mean-motion resonance (MMR),…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou

We construct stable axially symmetric models of elliptical galaxies. The particle density on phase space for these models depends monotonically on the particle energy and on the third component of the angular momentum. They are obtained as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yan Guo , Gerhard Rein

The spatial and temporal relationships between stellar age, kinematics, and chemistry are a fundamental tool for uncovering the physics driving galaxy formation and evolution. Observationally, these trends are derived using carefully…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 M. S. Miranda , B. A. Macfarlane , B. K. Gibson

We show that the algorithm proposed by Gauss to compute the secular evolution of gravitationally interacting Keplerian rings extends naturally to softened gravitational interactions. The resulting tool is ideal for the study of the secular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 J. R. Touma , S. Tremaine , M. V. Kazandjian

A discrete and exact algorithm for obtaining planetary systems is derived in a recent article (Eur. Phys. J. Plus 2022, 137:99). Here the algorithm is used to obtain planetary systems with forces different from the Newtonian inverse square…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Søren Toxvaerd

The quest of exo-Earths has become a prominent field. In this work, we study the stability of non-coplanar planetary configurations consisting of an inclined inner terrestrial planet in mean-motion resonance with an outer giant planet. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-06 K. I. Antoniadou , A. -S. Libert

Spatial diffusion of particles in periodic potential models has provided a good framework for studying the role of chaos in global properties of classical systems. Here a bidimensional "soft" billiard, classically modeled from an optical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-16 Matheus J. Lazarotto , Iberê L. Caldas , Yves Elskens

We present a method for studying the secular gravitational dynamics of hierarchical multiple systems consisting of nested binaries, which is valid for an arbitrary number of bodies and arbitrary hierarchical structure. We derive the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-10 Adrian S. Hamers , Simon F. Portegies Zwart

This paper is related to our previous works [1][2] on the error estimate of the averaging technique, for systems with one fast angular variable. In the cited references, a general method (of mixed analytical and numerical type) has been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-22 Carlo Morosi , Livio Pizzocchero

Context. Among the main effects that the Milky Way exerts in binary systems, the Galactic tide is the only one that is not probabilistic and can be deduced from a potential. Therefore, it is possible to perform an analysis of the global…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 J. Correa-Otto , M. F. Calandra , R. A. Gil-Hutton

Periodic orbits for the classical $\phi^4$ theory on the one dimensional lattice are systematically constructed by extending the normal modes of the harmonic theory, for periodic, fixed and free boundary conditions. Through the process, we…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-23 Kenichiro Aoki