Relative equilibria of four identical satellites

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2009.0115zbMATH Open1186.70015OpenAlexW3102726320MaRDI QIDQ3561978FDOQ3561978

Authors Alain Albouy, Yan-Ning Fu 

Publication date 19 May 2010

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3215

zbMATH Keywords

central configurationsco-orbital satellitessymmetrical configurations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

Abstract: We consider the Newtonian 5-body problem in the plane, where 4 bodies have the same mass m, which is small compared to the mass M of the remaining body. We consider the (normalized) relative equilibria in this system, and follow them to the limit when m/M -> 0. In some cases two small bodies will coalesce at the limit. We call the other equilibria the relative equilibria of four separate identical satellites. We prove rigorously that there are only three such equilibria, all already known after the numerical researches in [SaY]. Our main contribution is to prove that any equilibrium configuration possesses a symmetry, a statement indicated in [CLO2] as the missing key to proving that there is no other equilibrium.

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