A mathematical treatise on the restricted three-body problem of celestial mechanics

Author(s):  
P. MURAD
Author(s):  
Prasenjit Saha ◽  
Paul A. Taylor

Celestial mechanics abounds in interesting and counter-intuitive phenomena, such as descriptions of mass transfer between stars or optimal placements of satellites within the Solar System. Remarkably, many such features are already present in the restricted three-body problem, whose assumptions still allow for analytical understanding, and to which the second chapter is devoted. This ‘simplified’ system is discussed first in terms of forces (both gravitational and fictitious), and then using the Hamiltonian form. As well as traditional topics like stable and unstable Lagrange points and Roche lobes, a brief introduction to chaotic orbits is given. Additionally, readers are guided towards exploring on their own with numerical orbit integration.


New Astronomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 101510
Author(s):  
Md Sanam Suraj ◽  
Rajiv Aggarwal ◽  
Md Chand Asique ◽  
Amit Mittal

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 1151-1169 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIAN GIDEA ◽  
JOSEP J. MASDEMONT

The stable and unstable invariant manifolds associated with Lyapunov orbits about the libration point L1between the primaries in the planar circular restricted three-body problem with equal masses are considered. The behavior of the intersections of these invariant manifolds for values of the energy between that of L1and the other collinear libration points L2, L3is studied using symbolic dynamics. Homoclinic orbits are classified according to the number of turns about the primaries.


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