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In this work, we investigate the Earth-Moon system, as modeled by the planar circular restricted three-body problem, and relate its dynamical properties to the underlying structure associated with specific invariant manifolds. We consider a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-26 Vitor M. de Oliveira , Priscilla A. Sousa-Silva , Iberê L. Caldas

In this paper we carry out a quantitative analysis of the three-body systems and map them as a function of decaying time and intial conguration, look at this problem as an example of a simple deterministic system, and ask to what extent the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. J. Lehto , S. Kotiranta , M. J. Valtonen , P. Heinamaki , S. Mikkola , A. D. Chernin

The theory of the post-Newtonian (PN) planar circular restricted three-body problem is used for numerically investigating the orbital dynamics of a test particle (e.g., a comet, asteroid, meteor or spacecraft) in the planar Sun-Jupiter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Euaggelos E. Zotos , F. L. Dubeibe

We study the spatial isosceles three body problem, which is a system with two degrees of freedom after modulo the rotation symmetry. For certain choices of energy and angular momentum, we find some disk-like global surfaces of section with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Xijun Hu , Lei Liu , Yuwei Ou , Guowei Yu

We perform a detailed study of the chaotic component in mixed-type Hamiltonian systems on the example of a family of billiards [introduced by Robnik in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 16, 3971 (1983)]. The phase space is divided into a grid of cells…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-14 Črt Lozej , Marko Robnik

Many different models of the physical world exhibit chaotic dynamics, from fluid flows and chemical reactions to celestial mechanics. The study of the three-body problem (3BP) and its many different families of unstable periodic orbits…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Owen M. Brook , Jason J. Bramburger , Davide Amato , Urban Fasel

Chaos is present in most stellar dynamical systems and manifests itself through the exponential growth of small perturbations. Exponential divergence drives time irreversibility and increases the entropy in the system. A numerical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Tjarda Boekholt , Simon Portegies Zwart , Mauri Valtonen

We study the classical dynamics of the collinear positron-hydrogen scattering system below the three-body breakup threshold. Observing the chaotic behavior of scattering time signals, we in- troduce a code system appropriate to a coarse…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Min-Ho Lee , Chang Woo Byun , Jin-Sung Moon , Nark Nyul Choi , Dae-Soung Kim

The discovery of Pluto's small moons in the last decade brought attention to the dynamics of the dwarf planet's satellites. With such systems in mind, we study a planar $N$-body system in which all the bodies are point masses, except for a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 James A. Kwiecinski , Attila Kovacs , Andrew L. Krause , Ferran Brosa Planella , Robert A. Van Gorder

The three-body problem has been studied for more than three centuries [1,2], and has received much attention in recent years [3-5]. It shows complex dynamical phenomena due to the mutual gravitational interaction of the three bodies. Triple…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-05 Xiaoming Li , Xiaochen Li , Shijun Liao

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

We study the dynamics of a three-mode bosonic system with mode-changing interactions. For large mode occupations the short-time dynamics is well described by classical mean-field equations allowing us to study chaotic dynamics in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Michael Rautenberg , Martin Gärttner

We numerically study quantum chaos properties of long-range XXZ dipolar Hamiltonian spin systems. Two geometries are considered: (i) an open chain with 19 spins, (ii) a face-centered cubic lattice with 14 spins. Energy level-spacing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Dhrubo Jyoti

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

We analyze energy spreading for a system that features mixed chaotic phase-space, whose control parameters (or slow degrees of freedom) vary quasi-statically. For demonstration purpose we consider the restricted 3~body problem, where the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-10 Yehoshua Winsten , Doron Cohen

The three-body problem is arguably the oldest open question in astrophysics, and has resisted a general analytic solution for centuries. Various implementations of perturbation theory provide solutions in portions of parameter space, but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Nicholas C. Stone , Nathan W. C. Leigh

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 investigate regular and chaotic two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) orbits of stars in models of a galactic potential consisting in a disk, a halo and a bar, to find the origin of boxy components, which are part of the bar or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 L. Chaves-Velasquez , P. A. Patsis , I. Puerari , Ch. Skokos , T. Manos

Chaos in the orbits of black hole pairs has by now been confirmed by several independent groups. While the chaotic behavior of binary black hole orbits is no longer argued, it remains difficult to quantify the importance of chaos to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Janna Levin

We study the motion of a spinning test particle in Schwarzschild spacetime, analyzing the Poincar\'e map and the Lyapunov exponent. We find chaotic behavior for a particle with spin higher than some critical value (e.g. $S_{cr} \sim 0.64…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Shingo Suzuki , Kei-ichi Maeda