Dynamical Chaos in Planetary Systems

· Astrophysics and Space Science Library Book 463 · Springer Nature
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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.


About the author

Ivan I. Shevchenko is Professor at Saint Petersburg State University and Head of the Department of Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy at Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is author of the book "The Lidov-Kozai Effect - Applications in Exoplanet Research and Dynamical Astronomy", Springer (2017).

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