Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
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2001年
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81卷
关键词:
planetary rings;
shepherd moons;
periodic orbits;
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摘要:
We consider the system of planetary rings with shepherds as a restricted three or four-body problem, neglecting interactions between ring particles. We show that the generic occurrence of rings for the case of rotating short-range potentials can be extended to the case of gravitational potentials. The consecutive collision periodic orbits created by saddle-center bifurcations are of central importance.