Planetary3br: Three massive body resonance calculator
Abstract
Given two planets P1 and P2 with arbitrary orbits, planetary3br calculates all possible semimajor axes that a third planet P0 can have in order for the system to be in a three body resonance; these are identified by the combination k0*P0 + k1*P1 + k2*P2. P1 and P2 are assumed to be not in an exact two-body resonance. The program also calculates three "strengths" of the resonance, one for each planet, which are only indicators of the dynamical relevance of the resonance on each planet. Sample input data are available along with the Fortran77 source code.
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- July 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016ascl.soft07005G
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- Software