Tuesday, December 11, 2012

1212.2179 (M. Alvarez-Ramírez et al.)

The stability of the triangular libration points for the plane circular restricted three-body problem with light pressure    [PDF]

M. Alvarez-Ramírez, J. K. Formiga, R. V. de Moraes, J. E. F. Skea, T. J. Stuchi
We study the fourth-order stability of the triangular libration points in the absence of resonance for the three-body problem when the infinitesimal mass is affected not only by gravitation but also by light pressure from both primaries. A comprehensive summary of previous results is given, with some inaccuracies being corrected. The Lie triangle method is used to obtain the fourth-order Birkhoff normal form of the Hamiltonian, and the corresponding complex transformation to pre-normal form is given explicitly. We obtain an explicit expression for the determinant required by the Arnold-Moser theorem, and show that it is a rational function of the parameters, whose numerator is a fifth-order polynomial in the mass parameter. Particular cases where this polynomial reduces to a quartic are described. Our results reduce correctly to the purely gravitational case in the appropriate limits, and extend numerical work by previous authors.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2179

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