Perturbed locations and linear stability of collinear Lagrangian points in the elliptic restricted three body problem with triaxial primaries

Abstract

Abstract This paper aims to study the effect of the triaxiality and the oblateness as a special case of primaries on the locations and stability of the collinear equilibrium points of the elliptic restricted three body problem (in brief ERTBP). The locations of the perturbed collinear equilibrium points are first determined in terms of mass ratio of the problem (the smallest mass divided by the total mass of the system) and different concerned perturbing factors. The difference between the locations of collinear points in the classical case of circular restricted three body problem and those in the perturbed case is represented versus mass ratio over its range. The linear stability of the collinear points is discussed. It is observed that the stability regions for our model depend mainly on the eccentricity of the orbits in addition to the considered perturbations.