https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-022-03059-x
Regular Article
Effect of the mass ratio on the escape in the 4-body ring problem
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
Received:
4
May
2022
Accepted:
11
July
2022
Published online:
22
July
2022
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of the mass ratio on the distribution of short times of escape and the probability of escape of a particle from the 4-body ring configuration. To this purpose, we carry out a numerical exploration of the problem, considering three different values of the mass ratio between the central and the primary bodies and, for each of these values, a pair of values of the Jacobi constant.
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