Hamiltonian Stability of Spin Orbit Resonances in Celestial Mechanics

Details Hamiltonian Stability of Spin Orbit Resonances in Celestial Mechanics Hamiltonian Stability of Spin Orbit Resonances in Celestial Mechanics

May 2000

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Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, v. 76, Issue 4, p. 229-240 (2000).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Resonances, Spin-Orbit Problem, Periodic Orbits, Hamiltonian Dynamics, Resonances, Spin&Ndash, Orbit Problem, Periodic Orbits, Hamiltonian Dynamics

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The behaviour of ‘resonances’ in the spin-orbit coupling in celestial mechanics is investigated in a conservative setting. We consider a Hamiltonian nearly-integrable model describing an approximation of the spin-orbit interaction. The continuous system is reduced to a mapping by integrating the equations of motion through a symplectic algorithm. We study numerically the stability of periodic orbits associated to the above mapping by looking at the eigenvalues of the matrix of the linearized map over the full cycle of the periodic orbit. In particular, the value of the trace of the matrix is related to the stability character of the periodic orbit. We denote by ɛ* (p/q) the value of the perturbing parameter at which a given elliptic periodic orbit with frequency p/q becomes unstable. A plot of the critical function ɛ* (p/q) versus the frequency at different orbital eccentricities shows significant peaks at the synchronous resonance (for low eccentricities) and at the synchronous and 3:2 resonances (at higher eccentricities) in good agreement with astronomical observations.

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