Abstract. This study examines the effect of the relativistic factor as well as the triaxiality effect of the bigger primary on the positions and stability of the collinear points in the frame work of the post-Newtonian approximation. Using semi-analytical and numerical approach the collinear points are found to be unstable. A numerical exploration in this connection, with the Earth-Moon system, reveals that the relativistic factor has an effect on these positions. It is also found that under the combined effect of relativistic factor and triaxiality, the collinear point 1 L moves towards the primaries with the increase in triaxiality, while 2 L and 3 L move away from the bigger primary. It is also seen that in most of the cases in the presence of triaxiality, the effect of relativistic factor on the positions of 1 L and 3 L is not observable; however it has an observable effect on the position of 2 L in the presence of triaxiality except for the case 2.
We investigate in the elliptic framework of the restricted three-body problem, the motion around the collinear points of an infinitesimal particle in the vicinity of an oblate primary and a triaxial stellar companion. The locations of the collinear points are affected by the eccentricity of the orbits, oblateness of the primary body and the triaxiality and luminosity of the secondary. A numerical analysis of the effects of the parameters on the positions of collinear points of CEN X-4 and PSR J1903+0327 reveals a general shift away from the smaller primary with increase in eccentricity and triaxiality factors and a shift towards the smaller primary with increase in the semi-major axis and oblateness of the primary on L1. The collinear points remain unstable in spite of the introduction of these parameters.
Using an analytical and numerical study, this paper investigates the equilibrium state of the triangular equilibrium points
L
4
,
5
of the Sun-Earth system in the frame of the elliptic restricted problem of three bodies subject to the radial component of Poynting–Robertson (P–R) drag and radiation pressure factor of the bigger primary as well as dynamical flattening parameters of both primary bodies (i.e., Sun and Earth). The equations of motion are presented in a dimensionless-pulsating coordinate system
ξ
−
η
, and the positions of the triangular equilibrium points are found to depend on the mass ratio
μ
and the perturbing forces involved in the equations of motion. A numerical analysis of the positions and stability of the triangular equilibrium points of the Sun-Earth system shows that the perturbing forces have no significant effect on the positions of the triangular equilibrium points and their stability. Hence, this research work concludes that the motion of an infinitesimal mass near the triangular equilibrium points of the Sun-Earth system remains linearly stable in the presence of the perturbing forces.
This paper studies the motion of a third body near the 1st family of the out-of-plane equilibrium points, L6,7, in the elliptic restricted problem of three bodies under an oblate primary and a radiating-triaxial secondary. It is seen that the pair of points (ξ0,0,±ζ0) which correspond to the positions of the 1st family of the out-of-plane equilibrium points, L6,7, are affected by the oblateness of the primary, radiation pressure and triaxiality of the secondary, semimajor axis, and eccentricity of the orbits of the principal bodies. But the point ±ζ0 is unaffected by the semimajor axis and eccentricity of the orbits of the principal bodies. The effects of the parameters involved in this problem are shown on the topologies of the zero-velocity curves for the binary systems PSR 1903+0327 and DP-Leonis. An investigation of the stability of the out-of-plane equilibrium points, L6,7 numerically, shows that they can be stable for 0.32≤μ≤0.5 and for very low eccentricity. L6,7 of PSR 1903+0327 and DP-Leonis are however linearly unstable.
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