Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2002-06-20
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 341 (2003) 423
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
19 pages, 4 Postscript figures
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06325.x
In a previous investigation, a model of three-body motion was developed which included the effects of gravitational radiation reaction. The aim was to describe the motion of a relativistic binary pulsar that is perturbed by a third mass and look for resonances between the binary and third mass orbits. Numerical integration of an equation of relative motion that approximates the binary gives evidence of such resonances. These $(m:n)$ resonances are defined for the present purposes by the resonance condition, $m\omega=2n\Omega$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime integers and $\omega$ and $\Omega$ are the angular frequencies of the binary orbit and third mass orbit, respectively. The resonance condition consequently fixes a value for the semimajor axis $a$ of the binary orbit for the duration of the resonance because of the Kepler relationship $\omega=a^{-3/2}$. This paper outlines a method of averaging developed by Chicone, Mashhoon, and Retzloff which renders a nonlinear system that undergoes resonance capture into a mathematically amenable form. This method is applied to the present system and one arrives at an analytical solution that describes the average motion during resonance. Furthermore, prominent features of the full nonlinear system, such as the frequency of oscillation and antidamping, accord with their analytically derived formulae.
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