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In this study, dynamics of secular resonances for inner test particles are investigated under the octupole-level approximation by taking non-perturbative approaches. In practice, webs of the major secular resonances are produced by identifying families of stable periodic orbits and the associated stable libration zones are obtained by analysing Poincaré surfaces of section. By taking different values of the factor \(\epsilon \) (\(\epsilon \) measures the contribution of octupole terms), the influences of the octupole-order terms upon the dynamical structures are evaluated. Under the condition of \(\epsilon = 0\) (without octupole-order contribution), the dynamical model is totally integrable and there is only Kozai resonance arising in the phase space. When the factor \(\epsilon \) is different from zero, the dynamical structure in the phase space becomes complicated due to varieties of secular resonances. Numerical results further indicate that (a) distributions of libration centres and stable libration zones remain qualitatively similar with different values of \(\epsilon \), (b) Kozai resonance disappears in the low-eccentricity region due to the chaotic motion and (c) the chaotic area arising in the low-eccentricity region increases with the factor \(\epsilon \). Secular resonances are the source of many important dynamical phenomena, such as chaos, orbit alignment and orbit flipping, and thus, the results presented in this work could be useful to understand the secular dynamics for those high-eccentricity and/or high-inclination objects in hierarchical planetary systems.
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The author thanks two anonymous reviewers for their insightful and rigorous comments that help to improve the quality of this paper. This work is performed with the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12073011).
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Lei, H. Structures of secular resonances for inner test particles in hierarchical planetary systems. Celest Mech Dyn Astr 133, 40 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-021-10039-3
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