The Lidov-Kozai Effect - Applications in Exoplanet Research and Dynamical Astronomy

• Main Author: Shevchenko, Ivan I. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 441
• Subjects: Physics.; Planetology.; Dynamics.; Ergodic theory.; Astrophysics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.; Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).

This book deals with an effect in celestial mechanics that has become quite important in exoplanet research. The Lidov-Kozai effect reveals itself in coherent periodic variations (which can be very large) of the inclination and eccentricity of an orbiting body in the presence of an inclined perturbe...