A Note on the Use of Generalized Sundman Anomalies in the Numerical Integration of the Elliptical Orbital Motion
The orbital motion around a central body is an interesting problem that involves the theory of artificial satellites and the planetary theories in the solar system. Nevertheless some difficult situations appear while studying this apparently simple problem, depending on each particular case. The rea...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Abstract and Applied Analysis |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/691926 |
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| Summary: | The orbital motion around a central body is an interesting problem
that involves the theory of artificial satellites and the planetary theories
in the solar system. Nevertheless some difficult situations appear while
studying this apparently simple problem, depending on each particular
case. The real problem consists of searching the perturbed solution from
a basic two-body motion problem. In addition, the perturbed problem
must be solved using a numerical method and its efficiency depends on
the selected coordinate system and the corresponding time. In fact, local
and global errors are not necessarily homogeneously distributed over the
orbit. In other words, there is a strong relationship between the spatial
distribution of the selected points and the temporal independent variable.
This is particularly dramatic in specially difficult cases.
This issue leads us to consider different anomalies as temporal variables, searching for both precision and efficiency. Therefore, we are interested in the study of techniques to integrate the orbital motion equations
using different anomalies as temporal variables which are functions of one
or more parameters. The final aim of this paper is the minimization of the integration errors using an appropriate choice of the parameter depending on the eccentricity
value in the family of the generalized Sundman anomalies. |
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| ISSN: | 1085-3375 1687-0409 |