On the topology of basins of convergence linked to libration points in the modified R3BP with oblateness

Abstract

We numerically investigate the effect of oblateness parameter on the topology of basins of convergence connected with the equilibrium points in the restricted three-body problem when the test particle is an oblate spheroid, and the influence of the gravitational potential from the belt is taken into consideration. Additionally, the primaries are also not spherical in shape, on the contrary, it is oblate or prolate spheroid. The parametric variation of the equilibrium points, their stability, and the regions of possible motion are illustrated as the function of the parameters involved. The domain of convergence, on the several two dimensional planes, are unveiled by applying the bi-variate version of the Newton–Raphson iterative method. In addition, we perform a systematic investigation in an order to show how the used parameters affect the topology as well as the degree of fractality of basins of convergence. Moreover, it is also unveiled that how the region of the convergence is related with the number of the required iterations to achieve the desired accuracy with the corresponding probability distribution.