About one case of the nonrestricted three-body problem

E. Pittich
Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences - Bratislava, Slovak Republic


The present study is the investigation of particular case of the motion of three points, in which masses of the points are comparable, and the ratio of the semi-major axis of their orbits is the small parameter. Differential equations of the motion are transformed by the Zeipel's method. The Hamiltonian of the system are expended in terms of the Legendre polynomial. Short-period terms are received to the fourth order. For the analytical transformations were used the software computer system Mathematica. When the short-period terms were excluded from the Hamiltonian and taken account only first three terms, the general solution of the dynamics system was obtained in term of hyperelliptic integrals. The received solution presents secular and long-period perturbations. The triple system xi Ursa Maioris, whose components move along short-period orbits with periods of 2 years (the inner orbits) and 60 years (outer orbit) was picked up as the interesting object for applications. The results received from the analytical theory were compared with those obtained by numerical simulations.

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