This is the first monograph dedicated entirely to problems of stability and chaotic behaviour in planetary systems and its subsystems. The author explores the three rapidly developing interplaying fields of resonant and chaotic dynamics of Hamiltonian systems, the dynamics of Solar system bodies, and the dynamics of exoplanetary systems. The necessary concepts, methods and tools used to study dynamical chaos (such as symplectic maps, Lyapunov exponents and timescales, chaotic diffusion rates, stability diagrams and charts) are described and then used to show in detail how the observed dynamical architectures arise in the Solar system (and its subsystems) and in exoplanetary systems. The book concentrates, in particular, on chaotic diffusion and clearing effects. The potential readership of this book includes scientists and students working in astrophysics, planetary science, celestial mechanics, and nonlinear dynamics.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer Nature
Number of pages401
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-52144-8
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-52143-1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

Publication series

NameASSL
Volume463
ISSN (Print)0067-0057
ISSN (Electronic)2214-7985

    Research areas

  • planetary systems, dynamical chaos, planetary chaotic zones, nonlinear dynamics, Hamiltonian systems, dynamics of exoplanets, resonances and chaos, solar system dynamics, circumbinary planets, chaotic clearing

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