OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Three families of 5-body central configurations in the plane	54
Analysis of the natural orbits around Io	27
Planetary systems with forces other than gravitational forces	24
Terminator periodic orbits around binary asteroids: an application to the ESA Hera mission	20
Libration of Pluto’s argument of perihelion and the role of the major planets	14
Analyzing collision probability for asteroids detected on too short arcs	13
Mascon distribution techniques for asteroids and comets	13
Analysis of pitchfork bifurcations and symmetry breaking in the elliptic restricted three-body problem	13
Satellite transfers between Keplerian orbits	12
Laplace–Legendre expansion of the planar planetary Hamiltonian	10
Accelerating binary asteroid system propagation via nested interpolation method	10
Asteroid families: properties, recent advances, and future opportunities	10
Orbit determination from one position vector and a very short arc of optical observations	9
The nature of the Laplace resonance between the Galilean moons	9
Detection of separatrices and chaotic seas based on orbit amplitudes	9
Orbit averaging applied to inverse-square perturbations	8
Invariant manifolds near $$L_1$$ and $$L_2$$ in the quasi-bicircular problem	8
Sensitivity analysis of polar orbiter motion to lunar viscoelastic tidal deformation	8
Correction: Bifurcation of frozen orbits in a gravity field with zonal harmonics	8
Automated tour design in the Saturnian system	8
Regularized phase-space volume for the three-body problem	7
A LiDAR-less approach to autonomous hazard detection and avoidance systems based on semantic segmentation	7
Orbits of charged particles with an azimuthal initial velocity in a dipole magnetic field	7
GANBISS: a new GPU accelerated N-body code for binary star systems	7
Periodic orbits in a galactic potential	7

Framework for the full N-body problem in SE(3) and its reduction to the circular restricted full three-body problem	7
Regular n-gon rotating equilibria with logarithm gravitational interaction	7
Lagrange’s planetary equations with time-dependent secular perturbations	7
Dynamics around the Earth–Moon triangular points in the Hill restricted 4-body problem	6
Realizations of the interior spherical Bessel harmonic coefficients of a polyhedral body within the Brillouin sphere	6
Kepler equation solution without transcendental functions or lookup tables	6
Tidal evolution and spin–orbit dynamics for bodies in the viscous regime	6
Really perverse periodic solutions of the planar N-body problem	6
Correction: Mars orientation and rotation angles	6
“Twist vectors" for central configuration equations	5
On the concept of conditional barrier structures in the planar circular restricted three-body problem	5
On the effect of the sun on Kordylewski clouds	5
Extension of the creep tide theory to exoplanet systems with high stellar obliquity. The dynamic tide of CoRoT-3b	5
On the four-body limaçon choreography: maximal superintegrability and choreographic fragmentation	5
Determination of the parameters of a near-geostationary orbit by two optical measurements	5
A new arctangent potential for spherical galaxies and its distribution functions	5
Regularization of the Hill four-body problem with oblate bodies	5
Design of satellite orbits in the Sun–Earth–Moon system	5
Bifurcation of frozen orbits in a gravity field with zonal harmonics	5
Revisiting Earth tide parameters used in the development of planetary and lunar ephemeris	5
The negative energy N-body problem has finite diameter	5
Evolution of the characteristic curves in the restricted three-body problem in terms of the mass parameter	5
An attempt to build a dynamical catalog of present-day solar system co-orbitals	4
Determination of the doubly symmetric periodic orbits in the restricted three-body problem and Hill’s lunar problem	4
Orbital dynamics of smart dust with Poynting–Robertson and solar wind drag	4
Direct derivation of short-periodic $$J_2$$ corrections using Fourier expansions	4
Characterization of asteroid shapes and stability on their surface using super-ellipsoids	4
Nonlinear Chaotic Pitch Dynamics and Its Stablization of a Large Flexible Sailcraft	4
Transient-collision trajectories in Hill’s problem with an oblate primary: application to the Mars-Deimos system	4
Relegation-free closed-form perturbation theory and the domain of secular motions in the restricted three-body problem	4
Approximations and modifications of celestial dynamics tested on the three-body system	4
Low-energy Earth–Moon transfers via Theory of Functional Connections and homotopy	4
Secular orbital dynamics of the innermost exoplanet of the $$\upsilon $$-Andromedæ system	4
Trajectory-based dust evolution in disks: first results from the RAPID simulation code	4
Assessment of dynamical models for transitioning from the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem to an ephemeris model with applications	4
Understanding flow around planetary moons via finite-time Lyapunov exponent maps	4
Analytical sensitivity matrix for efficient solution of finite-thrust orbital transfer	4
Distribution of regularized three-body phase-volume	4