AVERAGED CIRCULAR SPATIAL RESTRICTED THREE-BODY PROBLEM: INTERNAL CASE, NEW RESULTS

Abstract

We investigate the spatial restricted circular three-body problem in the nonresonant case. Namely, we apply Gaussian averaging to obtain averaged equations in terms of osculating elements and then investigate them. Keplerian ellipse with a focus in the main body (the Sun) is taken as an unperturbed orbit assuming the semi-major axis of the ellipse to be less than the radius of the orbit of the outer planet (internal problem). Using the Parseval formula we have derived the twice-averaged perturbed force function of the problem in the form of an explicit analytical series with coefficients expressed in terms of the Gauss and Clausen hypergeometric functions. An investigation of averaged force function along it’s curves of non-analyticity showed that the series are asymptotic by Poincaré. For a reduced system with one degree of freedom, phase portraits of oscillations in the plane of the Keplerian elements \(e\), \(\omega \) are constructed in the second and fourth approximations. It is shown the topology of the phase portrait is more complicated in fourth approximation then in first and second approximations provided that the constant \({{c}_{1}}\) of the Lidov–Kozai integral belongs to the interval (0, 0.382).