Ygal Y. Klein

Hierarchical Three-Body Problem at High Eccentricities = Simple PendulumIV: Octupole for Librating Kozai-Lidov Cycles

Abstract We solve analytically the long-term octupole evolution of librating Kozai-Lidov cycles - those with a negative Kozai constant, in which the argument of pericenter librates - in the double-averaged restricted hierarchical three-body problem. Librating cycles reach extreme...