Gravitational ionization: a chaotic net in the Kepler system

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/3/013MaRDI QIDQ4339448zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Chicone, B. Mashhoon, D. G. Retzloff

Publication date 9 November 1997

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9608054

zbMATH Keywords

collapseArnold diffusionperiodic orbitsmethod of averagingcapture into resonanceexternal tidal perturbationsgravitational radiation dampinglong-term nonlinear dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Two-body problems (70F05) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

Abstract: The long term nonlinear dynamics of a Keplerian binary system under the combined influences of gravitational radiation damping and external tidal perturbations is analyzed. Gravitational radiation reaction leads the binary system towards eventual collapse, while the external periodic perturbations could lead to the ionization of the system via Arnold diffusion. When these two opposing tendencies nearly balance each other, interesting chaotic behavior occurs that is briefly studied in this paper. It is possible to show that periodic orbits can exist in this system for sufficiently small damping. Moreover, we employ the method of averaging to investigate the phenomenon of capture into resonance.

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