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3rd Austrian Hungarian Workshop
Andras Pal
On the stability of the habitable zones of exoplanetary systems
Since the discovery of the first planet beyond the Solar System
in 1995 the number of known exoplanetary systems have increased
up to 80. Studying these stars and planets is an important area
of astronomical researches. One of the problems is if in the
habitable zone of the studied Sun-like main-sequence stars with
F and G spectral classes are there any Earth-type planets,
or is there long-time stability in this zone despite the
perturbations of another planet(s). In our researches we
mapped the phase space structure of some exoplanetary systems
by using the method of the relative finite time Lyapunov indicators
and we compared the results with those obtained by other methods
(long-time numerical integrations).
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