Stability criteria in many-body systems |
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Authors: | Ian W. Walker A. Gordon Emslie Archie E. Roy |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Astronomy The University, G12 8QQ Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. |
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Abstract: | An expansion of the force function ofn-body dynamical systems, where the equations of motion are expressed in the Jacobian coordinate system, is shown to give rise naturally to a set of (n–1) (n–2) dimensionless parameterskili {i = 2,...,n;k = 2,...,i – 1 (i 3);l =i + 1,...,n (i n – 1)}, representative of the size of the disturbances on the Keplerian orbits of the various bodies. The expansion is particularized to the casen=3 which involves the consideration of only two parameters23 and32. Further, the work of Szebehely and Zare (1977) is reviewed briefly with reference to a sufficient condition for the stability of corotational coplanar three-body systems, in which two of the bodies form a binary system. This condition is sufficient in the sense that it precludes any possibility of an exchange of bodies, i.e. Hill type stability, however, it is not a necessary condition. These two approaches are then combined to yield regions of stability or instability in terms of the parameters23 and32 for any system of given masses and orbital characteristics (neglecting eccentricities and inclinations) with the following result: that there is a readily applicable rule to assess the likelihood of stability or instability of any given triple system in terms of23 and32.Treating a system ofn bodies as a set of disturbed three-body systems we use existing data from the solar system, known triple systems and numerical experiments in the many-body problem to plot a large number of triple systems in the23,32 plane and show the results agree well with the23,32 analysis above (eccentricities and inclinations as appropriate to most real systems being negligible). We further deal briefly with the extension of the criteria to many-body systems wheren>4, and discuss several interesting cases of dynamical systems. |
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