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Sep 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002sosyr..36..403s&link_type=abstract
Solar System Research, v. 36, Issue 5, p. 403-408 (2002).
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The recent discovery of extrasolar planets and planetary systems has raised many new research problems for astronomers. It has become apparent that the newly discovered systems differ significantly from the Solar System. In particular, many massive planets of other stars, in contrast to Jupiter, have large orbital eccentricities. In the present paper, we investigate several dynamic implications of this finding. Numerical integration results show that the orbits of low-mass planets in such systems usually have large evolving eccentricities. If the motion remains regular and no close encounters occur, the orbital evolution can be described analytically by using secular perturbations of Laplace-Lagrange equations. In terms of the Lagrange variables, the trajectories are circles, and the semimajor axis remains constant. The loss of the regularity of motion is normally followed by a nonmonotone synchronous increase in the semimajor axis and eccentricity, and the orbit becomes similar to that of a large-period comet. Narrow resonance-related regions include more complex motions.
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