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We present special generating plane orbits, the vertical-critical orbits, of the coplanar general three-body problem. These are determined numerically for various values of m3, for the entire range of the mass ratio of the two primaries. The vertical-critical orbits are necessary in order to specify the vertically stable segments of the families of plane periodic orbits, and they are also the starting points of the families of the simplest possible three-dimensional periodic orbits, namely the simple and double periodic. The initial conditions of the vertical-critical periodic orbits of the basic families l, m, i, h, b and c and their stability parameters are determined.
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Perdios, E., Papadakis, K. Vertical-Critical Periodic Orbits in the General Three-Body Problem. Astrophysics and Space Science 253, 73–85 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000580220079
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000580220079