Friday, May 3, 2013

1305.0016 (M. H. M. Morais et al.)

Retrograde resonance in the planar three-body problem    [PDF]

M. H. M. Morais, F. Namouni
We continue the investigation of the dynamics of retrograde resonances initiated in Morais & Giuppone (2012). After deriving a procedure to deduce the retrograde resonance terms from the standard expansion of the three-dimensional disturbing function, we specialize in the planar problem and construct surfaces of section that explore phase-space in the vicinity of the main retrograde resonances (2/-1, 1/-1 and 1/-2). In the case of the 1/-1 resonance for which the standard expansion is not adequate to describe the dynamics, we develop a semi-analytic model based on numerical averaging of the unexpanded disturbing function, and show that the predicted libration modes are in agreement with the behavior seen in the surfaces of section.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0016

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