Low Energy Transit Orbits in the Restricted Three-Body Problems
Low Energy Transit Orbits in the Restricted Three-Body Problems
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DOI:
10.1137/0116060
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发表时间:
1968-07
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
C. Conley
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作者:
C. Conley
1. Introduction. This work concerns orbits of the restricted three-body problem; for a discussion of that problem the reader is referred to [2],[3, Chap. 6], and [4]. The specific interest here is the behavior of orbits near those three critical points correspondingto the collinear Lagrangian points and particularly those orbits whose Jacobi constant is just above that of the critical point. The Hill’s region corresponding to such values of the Jacobi constant contains a" neck" about the Lagrangian point; thus, in the case of the Lagrangian point between the mass points, orbits on the integral surface can make a transit (through the neck) from one mass point to the other. The aim here is to describe how orbitsin the" neck" look. The purpose for the work is twofold. First, in [5] a general Hamiltonian system (with two degrees of freedom) which admits an unstable critical point is considered, and the ultimate behavior or orbits with respect to the critical point is described in terms of certain disk mappings. In this work the way the disk construction appears in the restricted problem is described so that the results of [5] can be interpreted for this problem. The second purpose is to outline a scheme for designing low-energy earth-moon orbits. Numerical work on this problem has been initiated and will be described in a later paper; for the present only the general scheme is described (4).In order to get a good idea of the appearance of orbits in the" neck," which will be called the equilibrium region from now on, it is sufficient to discuss the equations of motion linearized near the critical point. Indeed, by virtue of J. Moser’s generalization of a theorem of A. Liapounoff (see [6]) all the qualitative results of such a discussion carry over to the full nonlinear equations.