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astro-ph.IM2025

Connecting Earth and Moon via the L1 Lagrangian point

A. K. de Almeida, V. M. de Oliveira, T. Vaillant +4

The renewed global interest in lunar exploration requires new orbital strategies to ensure flight safety which can benefit extended lunar missions and service a plethora of planned…

astro-ph.IM2024

Action Research in Astronomy and Ecology: The observatory of the night environment in Grenoble

Julien Milli, Merlin Boribon, Fabien Malbet +4

We present an example of low-carbon research activity carried out by astrophysicists and focused on ecology and environmental protection, with direct impacts on territories and soc…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

Tangent Velocity constraint for orbital maneuvers with Theory of Functional Connections

A. K. de Almeida, T. Vaillant, V. M. de Oliveira +9

Maneuvering a spacecraft in the cislunar space is a complex problem, since it is highly perturbed by the gravitational influence of both the Earth and the Moon, and possibly also t…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

Astrometry via Close Approach Events: Applications to Main-Belt Asteroid (702) Alauda

B. F. Guo, Q. Y. Peng, A. Vienne +1

The release of Gaia catalog is revolutionary to the astronomy of solar system objects. After some effects such as atmospheric refraction and CCD geometric distortion have been take…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 6 cited

Theory of Functional Connections and Nelder-Mead optimization methods applied in satellite characterization

Allan Kardec de Almeida Junior, Safwan Aljbaae, Timothée Vaillant +10

The growing population of man-made objects with the build up of mega-constellations not only increases the potential danger to all space vehicles and in-space infrastructures (incl…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 8 cited

Reversible time-step adaptation for the integration of few-body systems

Tjarda C. N. Boekholt, Timothee Vaillant, Alexandre C. M. Correia

The time step criterion plays a crucial role in direct N-body codes. If not chosen carefully, it will cause a secular drift in the energy error. Shared, adaptive time step criteria…