Numerical determination of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits at collinear equilibria in the restricted three-body problem with oblateness

DOI10.1007/s10569-005-4441-xzbMath1125.70004MaRDI QIDQ819166

E. A. Perdios, Vassilis S. Kalantonis, Christos N. Douskos

Publication date: 22 March 2006

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-005-4441-x

zbMATH Keywords

heteroclinic orbits; homoclinic orbits; restricted three-body problem; oblateness; doubly asymptotic periodic orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70F07: Three-body problems

70-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems

70K44: Homoclinic and heteroclinic trajectories for nonlinear problems in mechanics

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