kozai: Hierarchical triple systems evolution
Abstract
The kozai Python package evolves hierarchical triple systems in the secular approximation. As its name implies, the kozai package is useful for studying Kozai-Lidov oscillations. The kozai package can represent and evolve hierarchical triples using either the Delaunay orbital elements or the angular momentum and eccentricity vectors. kozai contains functions to calculate the period of Kozai-Lidov oscillations and the maximum eccentricity reached; it also contains a module to study octupole order effects by averaging over individual Kozai-Lidov oscillations.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- April 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015ascl.soft04013A
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- Software