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Formation of Kuiper-belt binaries through multiple chaotic scattering encounters with low-mass intruders
Sergey A. Astakhov, Ernestine A. Lee, David Farrelly
The discovery that many trans-neptunian objects exist in pairs, or binaries, is proving invaluable for shedding light on the formation, evolution and structure of the outer Solar s…
Nondispersive two-electron Trojan wave packets
Matt Kalinski, Loren Hansen, David Farrelly
We demonstrate the existence of stable non-dispersing two-electron Trojan-like wave packets in the helium atom in combined magnetic and circularly polarized microwave fields. These…
Capture and escape in the elliptic restricted three-body problem
Sergey A. Astakhov, David Farrelly
Several families of irregular moons orbit the giant planets. These moons are thought to have been captured into planetocentric orbits after straying into a region in which the plan…
Dynamics of capture in the restricted three-body problem
S. A. Astakhov, Andrew D. Burbanks, Stephen Wiggins +1
We propose a new dynamical model for capture of irregular moons which identifies chaos as the essential feature responsible for initial temporary gravitational trapping within a pl…