Analytical solution of the Colombo top problem

DOI10.1007/S10569-020-09963-7MaRDI QIDQ2210847zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Haponiak, Sławomir Breiter, David Vokrouhlický

Publication date 9 November 2020

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14198

zbMATH Keywords

analytical solutionCassini statesColombo topelliptic functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Celestial mechanics (70F15) Homoclinic and heteroclinic trajectories for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K44)

Abstract: The Colombo top is a basic model in the rotation dynamics of a celestial body moving on a precessing orbit and perturbed by a gravitational torque. The paper presents a detailed study of analytical solution to this problem. By solving algebraic equations of degree 4, we provide the expressions for the extreme points of trajectories as functions of their energy. The location of stationary points (known as the Cassini states) is found as the function of the two parameters of the problem. Analytical solution in terms the Weierstrass and the Jacobi elliptic functions is given for regular trajectories. Some trajectories are expressible through elementary functions: not only the homoclinic orbits, as expected, but also a special periodic solution whose energy is equal to that of the first Cassini state (unnoticed in previous studies).

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