Long-term captures of low-mass intruders by binary stars

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Binary Stars, Capture Effect, Celestial Mechanics, Long Term Effects, Orbital Mechanics, Three Body Problem, Black Holes (Astronomy), Comets, Computerized Simulation, Elementary Particle Interactions, Mass Ratios, Systems Stability

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Hills (1983) has used computer simulations to investigate encounters between binaries and low-mass intruders. The present investigation is basically an appendix to the earlier study. The considered encounters describe the interactions between a binary star and an elementary particle background, between a binary black hole in a galactic nucleus and the stellar background, and between a comet and a sun-planet system. A surprising result of the calculations is related to the large fraction of intruders captured into long-lived orbits around the original binary. Attention is given to the computational procedure, the capture probability, the survival probability of intruder orbits, and the distribution of semimajor axes.

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