Stability of motion in the Sitnikov 3-body problem |
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Authors: | P Soulis T Bountis R Dvorak |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics and Center for Research and Applications of Nonlinear Systems, University of Patras, Patras, 26500, Greece;(2) Astrodynamics Group, Institute for Astronomy, University of Vienna, Türkenschanzstrasse 17, 1180 Vienna, Austria |
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Abstract: | We study the stability of motion in the 3-body Sitnikov problem, with the two equal mass primaries (m
1 = m
2 = 0.5) rotating in the x, y plane and vary the mass of the third particle, 0 ≤ m
3 < 10−3, placed initially on the z-axis. We begin by finding for the restricted problem (with m
3 = 0) an apparently infinite sequence of stability intervals on the z-axis, whose width grows and tends to a fixed non-zero value, as we move away from z = 0. We then estimate the extent of “islands” of bounded motion in x, y, z space about these intervals and show that it also increases as |z| grows. Turning to the so-called extended Sitnikov problem, where the third particle moves only along the z-axis, we find that, as m
3 increases, the domain of allowed motion grows significantly and chaotic regions in phase space appear through a series of
saddle-node bifurcations. Finally, we concentrate on the general 3-body problem and demonstrate that, for very small masses, m
3 ≈ 10−6, the “islands” of bounded motion about the z-axis stability intervals are larger than the ones for m
3 = 0. Furthermore, as m
3 increases, it is the regions of bounded motion closest to z = 0 that disappear first, while the ones further away “disperse” at larger m
3 values, thus providing further evidence of an increasing stability of the motion away from the plane of the two primaries,
as observed in the m
3 = 0 case. |
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Keywords: | Restricted 3-body Sitnikov problem Extended and general Sitnikov problem Stability intervals “ Islands” of bounded motion |
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