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2011MNRAS.418.2656D - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 418, 2656-2668 (2011/December-3)

The dynamics and stability of circumbinary orbits.

DOOLIN S. and BLUNDELL K.M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We numerically investigate the dynamics of orbits in 3D circumbinary phase space as a function of binary eccentricity and mass fraction. We find that inclined circumbinary orbits in the elliptically restricted three-body problem display a nodal libration mechanism in the longitude of the ascending node and in the inclination to the plane of the binary. We (i) analyse and quantify the behaviour of these orbits with reference to analytical work performed by [Farago & Laskar] and (ii) investigate the stability of these orbits over time. This work is the first dynamically aware analysis of the stability of circumbinary orbits across both binary mass fraction and binary eccentricity. This work also has implications for exoplanetary astronomy in the existence and determination of stable orbits around binary systems.

Abstract Copyright: 2011 The Authors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2011 RAS

Journal keyword(s): celestial mechanics - planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability - binaries: general - stars: kinematics and dynamics

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