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On the stability of periodic motions of a two-body system with flexible connection in an elliptical orbit

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This paper deals with periodic motions and their stability of a flexible connected two-body system with respect to its center of mass in a central Newtonian gravitational field on an elliptical orbit. Equations of motion are derived in a Hamiltonian form, and two periodic solutions as well as the necessary conditions for their existence are acquired. By analyzing linearized equations of perturbed motions, Lyapunov instability domains and domains of stability in the first approximation are obtained. In addition, the third- and fourth-order resonances are investigated in linear stability domains. A constructive algorithm based on a symplectic map is used to calculate the coefficients of the normalized Hamiltonian. Then, a nonlinear stability analysis for two periodic solutions is performed in the third- and fourth-order resonance cases as well as in the nonresonance case.

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    Xue Zhong, Jie Zhao & Kaiping Yu

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Zhong, X., Zhao, J., Yu, K. et al. On the stability of periodic motions of a two-body system with flexible connection in an elliptical orbit. Nonlinear Dyn 104, 3479–3496 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-021-06516-x

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