Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 2007
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Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Volume 98, Issue 4, pp.219-249
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Satellite Dynamics, Zonal And Tesseral Harmonics, Delaunay Normalisation, Reduction And Invariant Theories, Bifurcation Lines, Non-Linear Stability, Kam Theory, Invariant Tori, Quasiperiodic And Periodic Orbits
Scientific paper
We study the dynamics of a satellite (artificial or natural) orbiting an Earth-like planet at low altitude from an analytical point of view. The perturbation considered takes into account the gravity attraction of the planet and in particular it is caused by its inhomogeneous potential. We begin by truncating the equations of motion at second order, that is, incorporating the zonal and the tesseral harmonics up to order two. The system is formulated as an autonomous Hamiltonian and has three degrees of freedom. After three successive Lie transformations, the system is normalised with respect to two angular co-ordinates up to order five in a suitable small parameter given by the quotient between the angular velocity of the planet and the mean motion of the satellite. Our treatment is free of power expansions of the eccentricity and of truncated Fourier series in the anomalies. Once these transformations are performed, the truncated Hamiltonian defines a system of one degree of freedom which is rewritten as a function of two variables which generate a phase space which takes into account all of the symmetries of the problem. Next an analysis of the system is achieved obtaining up to six relative equilibria and three types of bifurcations. The connection with the original system is established concluding the existence of various families of invariant 3-tori of it, as well as quasiperiodic and periodic trajectories. This is achieved by using KAM theory techniques.
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