Eccentricity Generation in Hierarchical Triple Systems with Non-coplanar and Initially Circular Orbits |
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| Authors: | Nikolaos Georgakarakos |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Mathematics, Edinburg University, Mayfield Road, Edinburg, EH9 3JZ, UK |
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| Abstract: | In a previous paper, we developed a technique for estimating the inner eccentricity in coplanar hierarchical triple systems
on initially circular orbits, with comparable masses and with well-separated components, based on an expansion of the rate
of change of the Runge-Lenz vector. Now, the same technique is extended to non-coplanar orbits. However, it can only be applied
to systems with I
0 < 39.23° or I
0 > 140.77°, where I is the inclination of the two orbits, because of complications arising from the so-called ‘Kozai effect’. The theoretical
model is tested against results from numerical integrations of the full equations of motion.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | binaries:general celestial mechanics stellar dynamics |
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