Effect of the mass ratio on the escape in the 4-body ring problem

Abstract

AbstractThe 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.