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Record Nr.

UNINA9910257394003321

Autore

Henon Michel <1931->

Titolo

Generating Families in the Restricted Three-Body Problem / / by Michel Henon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1997

ISBN

3-540-69650-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 1997.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 280 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs ; ; 52

Disciplina

521

Soggetti

Astronomy

System theory

Mathematics - Data processing

Solar system

Mathematical physics

Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

Complex Systems

Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis

Space Physics

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Definitions and Properties -- Generating Orbits of the First Species -- Generating Orbits of the Second Species -- Generating Orbits of the Third Species -- Bifurcation Orbits -- Junctions: Symmetry -- Junctions: Broucke’s Principle -- Fragments -- Generating Families.

Sommario/riassunto

The classical restricted problem of three bodies is of fundamental importance for its applications to astronomy and space navigation, and also as a simple model of a non-integrable Hamiltonian dynamical system. A central role is played by periodic orbits, of which a large number have been computed numerically. In this book an attempt is made to explain and organize this material through a systematic study of generating families, which are the limits of families of periodic orbits when the mass ratio of the two main bodies becomes vanishingly small.



The most critical part is the study of bifurcations, where several families come together and it is necessary to determine how individual branches are joined. Many different cases must be distinguished and studied separately. Detailed recipes are given. Their use is illustrated by determining a number of generating families, associated with natural families of the restricted problem, and comparing them with numerical computations in the Earth-Moon and Sun-Jupiter case.