On the fractal basins of convergence of the libration points in the axisymmetric five-body problem: the convex configuration

Abstract

In the present work, the Newton-Raphson basins of convergence, corresponding to the coplanar libration points (which act as numerical attractors), are unveiled in the axisymmetric five-body problem, where convex configuration is considered. In particular, the four primaries are set in axisymmetric central configuration, where the motion is governed only by mutual gravitational attractions. It is observed that the total number libration points are either eleven, thirteen or fifteen for different combination of the angle parameters. Moreover, the stability analysis revealed that the all the libration points are linearly stable for all the studied combination of angle parameters. The multivariate version of the Newton-Raphson iterative scheme is used to reveal the structures of the basins of convergence, associated with the libration points, on various types of two-dimensional configuration planes. In addition, we present how the basins of convergence are related with the corresponding number of required iterations. It is unveiled that in almost every cases, the basins of convergence corresponding to the collinear libration point $L_2$ have infinite extent. Moreover, for some combination of the angle parameters, the collinear libration points $L_{1,2}$ have also infinite extent. In addition, it can be observed that the domains of convergence, associated with the collinear libration point $L_1$, look like exotic bugs with many legs and antennas whereas the domains of convergence, associated with $L_{4,5}$ look like butterfly wings for some combinations of angle parameters. Particularly, our numerical investigation suggests that the evolution of the attracting domains in this dynamical system is very complicated, yet a worthy studying problem.

Published in International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (IJNLM). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1904.04618 and arXiv:1807.00175

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