Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy

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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Planetary systems with forces other than gravitational forces47
Three families of 5-body central configurations in the plane24
Analysis of the natural orbits around Io22
Tidal evolution for any rheological model using a vectorial approach expressed in Hansen coefficients18
Libration of Pluto’s argument of perihelion and the role of the major planets18
Analysis of pitchfork bifurcations and symmetry breaking in the elliptic restricted three-body problem18
Correction: Bifurcation of frozen orbits in a gravity field with zonal harmonics16
Mascon distribution techniques for asteroids and comets16
Satellite transfers between Keplerian orbits13
Accelerating binary asteroid system propagation via nested interpolation method12
Transfers from the Earth to $$L_2$$ Halo orbits in the Earth–Moon bicircular problem12
Invariant manifolds near $$L_1$$ and $$L_2$$ in the quasi-bicircular problem12
Ellipsoidal equilibrium figure and Cassini states of rotating planets and satellites deformed by a tidal potential in the spatial case12
Orbit determination from one position vector and a very short arc of optical observations10
The nature of the Laplace resonance between the Galilean moons9
Detection of separatrices and chaotic seas based on orbit amplitudes9
Automated tour design in the Saturnian system9
Periodic orbits in a galactic potential8
Orbit averaging applied to inverse-square perturbations8
A LiDAR-less approach to autonomous hazard detection and avoidance systems based on semantic segmentation8
Sensitivity analysis of polar orbiter motion to lunar viscoelastic tidal deformation8
Regularized phase-space volume for the three-body problem8
Lagrange’s planetary equations with time-dependent secular perturbations8
Asteroid families: properties, recent advances, and future opportunities8
Tidal evolution and spin–orbit dynamics for bodies in the viscous regime7
Realizations of the interior spherical Bessel harmonic coefficients of a polyhedral body within the Brillouin sphere7
Regular n-gon rotating equilibria with logarithm gravitational interaction7
Framework for the full N-body problem in SE(3) and its reduction to the circular restricted full three-body problem7
Orbits of charged particles with an azimuthal initial velocity in a dipole magnetic field7
Correction: Mars orientation and rotation angles7
Design of satellite orbits in the Sun–Earth–Moon system6
Really perverse periodic solutions of the planar N-body problem6
Dynamics around the Earth–Moon triangular points in the Hill restricted 4-body problem6
GANBISS: a new GPU accelerated N-body code for binary star systems6
Kepler equation solution without transcendental functions or lookup tables6
Orbit determination of the moons of the Pluto–Charon system5
Closed-form perturbation theory in the restricted three-body problem without relegation5
On the effect of the sun on Kordylewski clouds5
The negative energy N-body problem has finite diameter5
Bifurcation of frozen orbits in a gravity field with zonal harmonics5
On the concept of conditional barrier structures in the planar circular restricted three-body problem5
Determination of the parameters of a near-geostationary orbit by two optical measurements5
Rapid and accurate methods for computing whiskered tori and their manifolds in periodically perturbed planar circular restricted 3-body problems5
On the four-body limaçon choreography: maximal superintegrability and choreographic fragmentation5
“Twist vectors" for central configuration equations5
Revisiting Earth tide parameters used in the development of planetary and lunar ephemeris5
A new arctangent potential for spherical galaxies and its distribution functions5
Evolution of the characteristic curves in the restricted three-body problem in terms of the mass parameter5
Analytical sensitivity matrix for efficient solution of finite-thrust orbital transfer4
Extension of the creep tide theory to exoplanet systems with high stellar obliquity. The dynamic tide of CoRoT-3b4
Spatial equilateral chain central configurations of the five-body problem with a homogeneous potential4
Low-energy Earth–Moon transfers via Theory of Functional Connections and homotopy4
Overlong simulations of the solar system dynamics with two alternating step-lengths4
Assessment of dynamical models for transitioning from the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem to an ephemeris model with applications4
Distribution of regularized three-body phase-volume4
Regularization of the Hill four-body problem with oblate bodies4
Characterization of asteroid shapes and stability on their surface using super-ellipsoids4
Determination of the doubly symmetric periodic orbits in the restricted three-body problem and Hill’s lunar problem4
Librations of a body composed of a deformable mantle and a fluid core4
An attempt to build a dynamical catalog of present-day solar system co-orbitals4
Secular orbital dynamics of the innermost exoplanet of the $$\upsilon $$-Andromedæ system4
Nonlinear Chaotic Pitch Dynamics and Its Stablization of a Large Flexible Sailcraft4
Correction: Chaotic coexistence of librational and rotational dynamics in the averaged planar three-body problem4
Understanding flow around planetary moons via finite-time Lyapunov exponent maps4
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