Conclusions
Figure 1: The Size distribution of the stability region around L4 and all Secondary resonances of co-orbital motions.
The part of the Exotrojan catalogue is marked as white line.
In studying the possibility of Trojan exoplanets, the size of
the stability region around the Lagrangian points L4 and
L5 is crucial. We determined the size distribution of the
stability region around L4 in the elliptic restricted threebody
problem depending on the mass parameter and the
eccentricity. The size distribution has a fine structure with
several minimum zones.We have shown that these minimum
zones are connected with resonances between the frequencies
of librational motions around L4. The situation is analogous
to the Kirkwood gaps at mean motion resonances in the
distribution of the main belt asteroids of the Solar system.
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