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The nonlinear stability domain of Lagrange's celebrated 1772 solution of a three-body problem is obtained numerically as a function of the masses of the bodies and the common eccentricity of their Keplerian orbits. This domain shows that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Nauenberg

About half of all known stellar systems with Sun-like stars consist of two or more stars, significantly affecting the orbital stability of any planet in these systems. This observational evidence has prompted a large array of theoretical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Eberle , M. Cuntz , Z. E. Musielak

We give a self-contained modern linear stability analysis of a system of n equal mass bodies in circular orbit about a single more massive body. Starting with the mathematical description of the dynamics of the system, we form the linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert J. Vanderbei , Egemen Kolemen

La teoria di Lagrange per i moti secolari delle eccentricit\`a ed inclinazioni delle orbite planetarie si fondava su un'approssimazione, dettata in larga misura dalla complessit\`a dei calcoli necessari, che consisteva nel considerare solo…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-01 Antonio Giorgilli , Ugo Locatelli , Marco Sansottera

It is well known that objects can oscillate around the Lagrangian point L4. In this manuscript we compute the period of these oscillations by computing the exact expression of the characteristic polynomial of the matrix that determined the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-06 Oscar M Perdomo

We consider the motion of point masses given by a natural extension of Newtonian gravitation to spaces of constant positive curvature. Our goal is to explore the spectral stability of tetrahedral orbits of the corresponding 4-body problem…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-11 Florin Diacu , Regina Martinez , Ernesto Perez-Chavela , Carles Simo

We use the planar circular restricted three-body problem in order to numerically investigate the orbital dynamics of orbits of a spacecraft, or a comet, or an asteroid in the Saturn-Titan system in a scattering region around the Titan. The…

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

We study the stability of circular orbits in the background of a traversable wormhole (TWH) spacetime obtained as a solution of Einstein's field equations coupled conformally to a massless scalar field. The Lyapunov stability approach is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-26 Shobhit Giri , Hemwati Nandan , Lokesh Kumar Joshi , Sunil D. Maharaj

The classical problem of attitude stability in a central gravity field is generalized to that on a stationary orbit around a uniformly-rotating asteroid. This generalized problem is studied in the framework of geometric mechanics. Based on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-03 Yue Wang , Shijie Xu

We present a numerical study on the stability of all fourth- and fifth-order retrograde mean motion resonances (1/3, 3/1, 1/4, 4/1, 2/3, and 3/2) in the 3-body problem composed of a solar mass star, a Jupiter mass planet, and an additional…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-14 Alan Cefali Signor , Gabriel Antonio Carita , Maria Helena Moreira Morais

In this work, we performed a dynamical analysis of a spacecraft around a nearly equal-mass binary near-Earth asteroid with application to the asteroid 2017 YE5, which is also a possible dormant Jupiter-family comet. Thus, we investigated…

We carry out a stability analysis for the real space split operator method for the propagation of the time-dependent Klein-Gordon equation that has been proposed Ruf et al. [M. Ruf, H. Bauke, C.H. Keitel, A real space split operator method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Frederick Blumenthal , Heiko Bauke

In the framework of the planar restricted three body problem we study a considerable number of resonances associated to the Kuiper Belt dynamics and located between 30 and 48 a.u. Our study is based on the computation of resonant periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 George Voyatzis , Thomas Kotoulas

In the present paper, which is a development of an earlier study by the author \cite{Sosnitskii08}, we consider the stability of triangular libration points in the spatial circular restricted three-body problem and improve the result of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Stepan P. Sosnitskii

We present an analysis of lifetimes and resonances of Earth Trojan Asteroids (ETAs) in the MEGASIM data set (Yeager & Golovich 2022). Trojan asteroids co-orbit the Sun with a planet but remain bound to the Lagrange points, L4 (60{\deg}…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Travis Yeager , Nathan Golovich

Despite the existence of co-orbital bodies in the solar system, and the prediction of the formation of co-orbital planets by planetary system formation models, no co-orbital exoplanets (also called trojans) have been detected thus far. In…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Adrien Leleu , Gavin Coleman , Sareh Ataiee

We provide stability estimates, obtained by implementing the Nekhoroshev theorem, in reference to the orbital motion of a small body (satellite or space debris) around the Earth. We consider a Hamiltonian model, averaged over fast angles,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-14 Alessandra Celletti , Irene De Blasi , Christos Efthymiopoulos

Studying the orbital stability of multi-planet systems is essential to understand planet formation, estimate the stable time of an observed planetary system, and advance population synthesis models. Although previous studies have primarily…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Sheng Yang , Liangyu Wu , Zekai Zheng , Masahiro Ogihara , Kangrou Guo , Wenzhan Ouyang , Yaxing He

The dynamics near the Lagrange equilibria $L_1$ and $L_2$ of the Circular Restricted Three-body Problem has gained attention in the last decades due to its relevance in some topics such as the temporary captures of comets and asteroids and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Rocio Isabel Paez , Massimiliano Guzzo

We present a series of numerical integrations of observed and fictitious Jupiter Trojan asteroids, under the gravitational effects of the four outer planets, for time-spans comparable with the age of the Solar System. From these results we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Romina P. Di Sisto , Ximena S. Ramos , Cristián Beaugé