Astrophysical: Orbits

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    Dynamical effects of radiation on the orbits of bodies in the Schwarzschild metric. I

    Dynamical problems associated with the orbital motion of dust particles in strong gravitational and radiation fields are analyzed. The general relativistic...

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    Stationkeeping of a quasiperiodic halo orbit using invariant manifolds

    Stationkeeping of quasiperiodic orbits near a periodic halo orbit of the Earth+Moon-Sun system is analyzed. The full solar system is considered as a...

  • News
    The Clarke exobelt, a method to search for possible extraterrestrial civilizations

    A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal by Hector Socas-Navarro, a researcher at the IAC, examines the possibility of detecting hypothetical...

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    Uranian ring orbits from earth-based and Voyager occultation observations

    The authors have combined an enhanced Earth-based occultation data set and Voyager occultation observations to determine a new solution for the ring orbital...