Trojan resonant dynamics, stability, and chaotic diffusion, for parameters relevant to exoplanetary systems

DOI10.1007/S10569-014-9591-2zbMATH Open1314.70013arXiv1410.1407OpenAlexW2061362287MaRDI QIDQ2348890FDOQ2348890

Authors: C. Efthymiopoulos, Rocío Isabel Páez 

Publication date: 16 June 2015

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

Abstract: We investigate the dynamics of small trojan exoplanets in domains of secondary resonances within the tadpole domain of motion. We consider the limit of a massless trojan companion of a giant planet. Without other planets, this is a case of the elliptic restricted three body problem (ERTBP). The presence of more planets (the restricted multi-planet problem, RMPP) induces new direct and indirect secular effects on the trojan's dynamics. In the theoretical part of this paper, we develop a Hamiltonian formalism in action-angle variables, which allows to treat in a unified way resonant dynamics and secular effects on the trojan body in both the ERTBP or the RMPP. Our formalism leads to a decomposition of the Hamiltonian in two parts, $H=H_b+H_{sec}$. $H_b$, called the basic model, describes resonant dynamics in the short-period (epicyclic) and synodic (libration) degrees of freedom. $H_{sec}$ contains only terms depending on slow (secular) angles. $H_b$ is formally identical in the ERTBP and the RMPP, apart from a re-definition of angular variables. An important physical consequence is that the slow chaotic diffusion proceeds in both the ERTBP and the RMPP by a qualitatively similar dynamical mechanism better approximated by the paradigm of `modulational diffusion'. In the numerical part, we focus on the ERTBP for making a numerical demonstration of the chaotic diffusion process along resonances. Using color stability maps, we provide a survey of the resonant web for characteristic mass parameters of the primary, in which the secondary resonances from 1:5 to 1:12 (ratio of the short over the synodic period) and their resonant multiplets appear. We give numerical examples of diffusion of weakly chaotic orbits in the resonant web. We make a statistics of the escaping times in the resonant domain, and find power-law tails of the distribution of escaping times for slowly diffusing chaotic orbits.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.1407

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zbMATH Keywords

resonancestability mapschaotic diffusionFLI mapsescaping timesTrojan exoplanets dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Transition to stochasticity (chaotic behavior) for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K55) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Stability problems for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H14)

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