Polar orbits around binary stars

DOI10.1007/S10569-017-9803-7MaRDI QIDQ1706321zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Greg Egan

Publication date 21 March 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05345

zbMATH Keywords

methods: numericalplanets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stabilitybinaries: generalmethods: analytical

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orbital mechanics (70M20)

Abstract: Oks proposes the existence of a new class of stable planetary orbits around binary stars, in the shape of a helix on a conical surface whose axis of symmetry coincides with the interstellar axis. We show that this claim relies on the inappropriate use of an effective potential that is only applicable when the stars are held motionless, and that the existence of the torques required to maintain the proposed orbits would have been empirically detected in the motion of artificial satellites in high-inclination orbits.

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