Effective stability around the Cassini state in the spin-orbit problem

DOI10.1007/S10569-014-9547-6zbMATH Open1294.70015arXiv1510.06521OpenAlexW3101036433MaRDI QIDQ740362FDOQ740362

Authors: Marco Sansottera, Christoph Lhotka, Anne Lemaitre 

Publication date: 2 September 2014

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

Abstract: We investigate the long-time stability in the neighborhood of the Cassini state in the conservative spin-orbit problem. Starting with an expansion of the Hamiltonian in the canonical Andoyer-Delaunay variables, we construct a high-order Birkhoff normal form and give an estimate of the effective stability time in the Nekhoroshev sense. By extensively using algebraic manipulations on a computer, we explicitly apply our method to the rotation of Titan. We obtain physical bounds of Titan's latitudinal and longitudinal librations, finding a stability time greatly exceeding the estimated age of the Universe. In addition, we study the dependence of the effective stability time on three relevant physical parameters: the orbital inclination, $i$, the mean precession of the ascending node of Titan orbit, $dotOmega$, and the polar moment of inertia, $C$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06521

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zbMATH Keywords

long-time stabilitynormal form methodsCassini stateTitanspin-orbit resonance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Celestial mechanics (70F15) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Stability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K20)

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