Basins of convergence of equilibrium points in the restricted three-body problem with modified gravitational potential

Euaggelos E. Zotos, Wei Chen, Elbaz I. Abouelmagd and Huiting Han

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020, vol. 134, issue C

Abstract: This article aims to investigate the points of equilibrium and the associated convergence basins in the restricted problem with two primaries, with a modified gravitational potential. In particular, for one of the primary bodies, we add an external gravitational term of the form 1/r3, which is very common in general relativity and represents a gravitational field much stronger than the classical Newtonian one. Using the well-known Newton–Raphson iterator we numerically locate the position of the points of equilibrium, while we also obtain their linear stability. Furthermore, for the location of the points of equilibrium, we obtain semi-analytical functions of both the mass parameter and the transition parameter. Finally, we demonstrate how these two variable parameters affect the convergence dynamics of the system as well as the fractal degree of the basin diagrams. The fractal degree is derived by computing the (boundary) basin entropy.

Keywords: Restricted problem of three bodies; Points of equilibrium; Basins of convergence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2020.109704

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