Orbital stability of planets in binary systems: A new look at old results
Abstract
About half of all known stellar systems with Sun-like stars consist of two or more stars, significantly affecting the orbital stability of any planet in these systems. This observational evidence has prompted a large array of theoretical research, including the derivation of mathematically stringent criteria for the orbital stability of planets in stellar binary systems, valid for the "coplanar circular restricted three-body problem". In the following, we use these criteria to explore the validity of results from previous theoretical studies.
- Publication:
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Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics
- Pub Date:
- May 2008
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0712.3239
- Bibcode:
- 2008IAUS..249..507E
- Keywords:
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- Astrobiology;
- methods: numerical;
- binaries;
- planetary systems;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 3 pages, 1 figure