Stability of axial orbits in galactic potentials

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 95, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 101-116

  Belmonte, Cinzia ^a   Boccaletti, Dino ^b   Pucacco, Giuseppe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Galactic potentials; Normal forms of Hamiltonian systems; Stability of periodic orbits

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749348165     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: 15729478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-006-9015-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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