Stability of the GJ 876 Planetary System
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- 25 August 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
- Vol. 53 (4) , L25-L26
- https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/53.4.l25
Abstract
The newly discovered planetary system of the GJ 876 is stabilized by a 2:1 mean-motion resonance. We carried out numerical simulations of the GJ 876 planetary system for several sets of initial epochs, and investigated their stability, since this planetary system is very sensitive to an initial epoch because of a large difference between the osculating elements and the mean elements.Keywords
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