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The dynamical evolution of a hierarchical three body system is well characterized by the eccentric Kozai-Lidov mechanism, where the inner orbit can undergo large eccentricity and inclination oscillations. It was shown before that starting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gongjie Li , Smadar Naoz , Bence Kocsis , Abraham Loeb

Mildly hierarchical three-body systems are widespread in the Universe, exemplified by planets in stellar binaries and stars in black-hole binaries. In such systems, Brown Hamiltonian corrections play a crucial role in governing the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Hao Gao , Hanlun Lei

We describe a new kind of resonance occuring in relativistic three-body hierarchical systems: the precession resonance, occuring when the relativistic precession timescale of a binary equals the period of a distant perturber. We find that,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-06 Adrien Kuntz

Consider the spatial three-body problem, in the regime where one body revolves far away around the other two, in space, the masses of the bodies being arbitrary but fixed; in this regime, there are no resonances in mean motions. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Jacques Féjoz , Marcel Guardia

A test particle in a noncoplanar orbit about a member of a binary system can undergo Kozai-Lidov oscillations in which tilt and eccentricity are exchanged. An initially circular highly inclined particle orbit can reach high eccentricity. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Stephen H. Lubow

This paper concerns the classical dynamics of three coupled rotors: equal masses moving on a circle subject to attractive cosine inter-particle potentials. It is a simpler variant of the gravitational three-body problem and also arises as…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-24 Govind S. Krishnaswami , Himalaya Senapati

The Lidov-Kozai (LK) mechanism plays an important role in the secular evolution of many hierarchical triple systems. The standard LK mechanism consists of large-amplitude oscillations in eccentricity and inclination of a binary subject to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bin Liu , Diego J. Muñoz , Dong Lai

The restricted three-body problem describes the motion of a massless particle under the influence of two primaries of masses $1-\mu$ and $\mu$ that circle each other with period equal to $2\pi$. For small $\mu$, a resonant periodic motion…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-08-28 D. Viswanath

Many binary systems of interest for gravitational-wave astronomy are orbited by a third distant body, which can considerably alter their relativistic dynamics. Precision computations are needed to understand the interplay between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Adrien Kuntz , Francesco Serra , Enrico Trincherini

We analyze the behavior of the argument of pericenter $\omega_2$ of an outer particle in the elliptical restricted three-body problem, focusing on the inverse Lidov-Kozai resonance. First, we calculate the contribution of the terms of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Gonzalo Carlos de Elía , Macarena Zanardi , Agustín Dugaro , Smadar Naoz

The so-called Lidov-Kozai oscillation is very well known and applied to various problems in solar system dynamics. This mechanism makes the orbital inclination and eccentricity of the perturbed body in the circular restricted three-body…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Takashi Ito , Katsuhito Ohtsuka

The Hamiltonian used in classical analyses of von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai or ZLK oscillations in hierarchical triple systems is based on the quadrupole potential from a distant body on a fixed orbit, averaged over the orbits of both the inner…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Scott Tremaine

We consider the planar circular restricted three-body problem (PCRTBP), as a model for the motion of a spacecraft relative to the Earth-Moon system. We focus on the Lagrange equilibrium points $L_1$ and $L_2$. There are families of Lyapunov…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Marian Gidea , Rafael de la Llave , Maxwell Musser

The restricted circular three-body problem is considered for the following parameter values $C=3.03$, $\mu=0.0009537$ - the values for {\em Oterma} comet in the Sun-Jupiter system. We present a computer assisted proof of an existence of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-20 D. Wilczak , P. Zgliczynski

Recent numerical results seem to suggest that in certain regimes of typical particle velocities the gravitational $N-$body problem (for $3\leq N\lesssim 10^3$) is intrinsically less chaotic when the post-Newtonian (PN) force terms are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-08 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Alessandro Alberto Trani

The classical two-body system with Lorentz-invariant Coulomb interaction V=-k/rho is solved in 3+1 dimensions using the manifestly covariant Hamiltonian mechanics of Stueckelberg. Particular solutions for the reduced motion are obtained…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 M. A. Trump , W. C. Schieve

Triple systems with low hierarchical structure are common throughout the Universe, including examples such as high-altitude lunar satellites influenced by the Earth, planetary satellites perturbed by the Sun, and stellar binaries affected…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Hanlun Lei , Evgeni Grishin

A normal form theory for non--quasi--periodic systems is combined with the special properties of the partially averaged Newtonian potential pointed out in [15] to prove, in the averaged, planar three--body problem, the existence of a plenty…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Gabriella Pinzari

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

We study the Kozai-Lidov mechanism in a hierarchical triple system in detail by the direct integration of the first-order post Newtonian equations of motion. We analyse a variety of models with a pulsar to evaluate the cumulative shift of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-15 Haruka Suzuki , Priti Gupta , Hirotada Okawa , Kei-ichi Maeda