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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 379, Issue 1, Pages L21-L24Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00326.x
Keywords
stellar dynamics; methods: N-body simulations; celestial mechanics
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS Fellowship Program)
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We conducted extensive numerical experiments of equal mass three-body systems until they became disrupted. The system lifetimes, as a bound triple, and the Lyapunov times show a correlation similar to what has been earlier obtained for small bodies in the Solar system. Numerical integrations of several sets of differently randomized initial conditions produced the same relationship of the instability time and Lyapunov time. Marginal probability densities of the various times in the three-body experiments are also discussed. Our high accuracy numerical method for three-body orbit computations and Lyapunov time determinations is concisely described.
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