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...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Historical Background
• Secular Theories in Celestial Mechanics
• LKE: Classical Results
• LKE: The Theory Advances
• Understanding Irregular Satellites
• Sungrazing Comets
• Asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects in Inclined Orbits
• The Role in Sculpting Exoplanetary Systems
• Applications in Stellar Dynamics
• References.