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astro-ph.EP2026

Hierarchical Three-Body Problem at High Eccentricities = Simple Pendulum, IV: Octupole for Librating Kozai-Lidov Cycles

Ygal Y. Klein

The paper analytically derives the long‑term octupole dynamics of librating Kozai‑Lidov cycles in hierarchical three‑body systems, showing they behave like a simple pendulum and pr…

astro-ph.HE2026

Short-Range Forces Can Catalyze Extreme Orbital Evolution in Hierarchical Triples

Ygal Y. Klein, Chris Hamilton

Hierarchical triples are promising environments for producing exotica such as black hole mergers and hot Jupiters, because of the von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai (ZLK) effect, whereby a dis…

astro-ph.SR2025

von Zeipel-Kozai-Lidov oscillations in nearby bright stars. I. Lambda Ophiuchi

Idel Waisberg, Ygal Klein, Boaz Katz

The challenge of constraining both the inner and the outer orbits in multiple stars has resulted in a growing abyss between the rich theoretical and the sparse observational studie…

astro-ph.SR2025

Which is the most eccentric binary known? Insights from the 2023/4 pericenter passages of Zeta Boötis and Eta Ophiuchi

Idel Waisberg, Ygal Klein, Boaz Katz

There is a clear dearth of very eccentric binaries among those for which individual eccentricities can be measured. In this paper we report on observations of the two nearby, brigh…

astro-ph.SR2025

Kozai Lidov Cycles = Simple Pendulum

Roi D. Basha, Ygal Y. Klein, Boaz Katz

The quadrupole Kozai mechanism, which describes the hierarchical three-body problem in the leading order, is shown to be equivalent to a simple pendulum where the change in the ecc…

astro-ph.SR2024

Hierarchical Three-Body Problem at High Eccentricities = Simple Pendulum III: Precessing Quadrupole

Ygal Y. Klein, Boaz Katz

The very long-term evolution of the hierarchical restricted three-body problem with a slightly aligned precessing quadrupole potential is investigated analytically and solved for b…