Orbital distribution arbitrarily close to the homothetic equilateral triple collision in the free-fall three-body problem with equal masses

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 69-94

  Umehara, Hiroaki ^a,c   Tanikawa, Kiyotaka ^b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Binary collision; Escape; Three body problem; Triple collision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007470568     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008397407444     Document Type: Article

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