Some aspects of the classical three-body problem that are close or foreign to physical intuition
- Author(s)
- Harald Posch, Walter Thirring
- Abstract
We propose a simple oscillator model for the reduced three-body problem to understand the stability of orbits with small eccentricity of a light planet. It models the main short-time features for small mass ratios of the other bodies. These results are confronted with the exact mathematical analysis for stability for all times, and with computer simulation results for bigger mass ratios, where chaotic features emerge. Π2000 American Institute of Physics.
- Organisation(s)
- Computational and Soft Matter Physics
- Journal
- Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Volume
- 41
- Pages
- 3430-3447
- No. of pages
- 18
- ISSN
- 0022-2488
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.533318
- Publication date
- 2000
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103036 Theoretical physics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/some-aspects-of-the-classical-threebody-problem-that-are-close-or-foreign-to-physical-intuition(5d172fb3-febf-4bd5-9d5d-afbc8cdbcbea).html