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Three-dimensional motions in the Chermnykh restricted three-body problem are studied. Specifically, families of three-dimensional periodic orbits are determined through bifurcations of the family of straight-line periodic oscillations of the problem which exists for equal masses of the primaries. These rectilinear oscillations are perpendicular to the plane of the primaries and give rise to an infinite number of families consisting entirely of periodic orbits which belong to the three-dimensional space except their respective one-dimensional bifurcations as well as their planar terminations. Many of the computed branch families are continued in all mass range that they exist.
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One of the authors (A.A. Nikaki) acknowledges financial support under a University of Patras “K. Karatheodory” research grant.
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Perdiou, A.E., Nikaki, A.A. & Perdios, E.A. Periodic motions in the spatial Chermnykh restricted three-body problem. Astrophys Space Sci 345, 57–66 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-013-1368-7
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