2015/12/29 by Euaggelos E. Zotos · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.EP
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10509-015-2513-2
published as A&SS, 2015, vol. 360 · Published in Astrophysics and Space Science (A&SS) journal, article ID 1. arXiv admin note: previous papers with related context: arXiv:1508.05209, arXiv:1505.04185, arXiv:1511.04881; text overlap with arXiv:1212.2179 by other authors
arxiv created 2015/12/29 · arxiv updated 2017/09/28
The case of the planar circular photogravitational restricted three-body problem where the more massive primary is an emitter of radiation is numerically investigated. A thorough numerical analysis takes place in the configuration (x,y) and the (x,C) space in which we classify initial conditions of orbits into three main categories: (i) bounded, (ii) escaping and (iii) collisional. Our results reveal that the radiation pressure factor has a huge impact on the character of orbits. Interpreting the collisional motion as leaking in the phase space we related our results to both chaotic scattering and the theory of leaking Hamiltonian systems. We successfully located the escape as well as the collisional basins and we managed to correlate them with the corresponding escape and collision times. We hope our contribution to be useful for a further understanding of the escape and collision properties of motion in this interesting version of the restricted three-body problem.