Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy

Papers
(The median citation count of Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Planetary systems with forces other than gravitational forces53
Three families of 5-body central configurations in the plane25
Tidal evolution for any rheological model using a vectorial approach expressed in Hansen coefficients21
Analysis of the natural orbits around Io19
Terminator periodic orbits around binary asteroids: an application to the ESA Hera mission13
Mascon distribution techniques for asteroids and comets13
Libration of Pluto’s argument of perihelion and the role of the major planets13
Accelerating binary asteroid system propagation via nested interpolation method12
Analysis of pitchfork bifurcations and symmetry breaking in the elliptic restricted three-body problem12
Satellite transfers between Keplerian orbits12
Analyzing collision probability for asteroids detected on too short arcs12
The nature of the Laplace resonance between the Galilean moons11
Correction: Bifurcation of frozen orbits in a gravity field with zonal harmonics10
Orbit determination from one position vector and a very short arc of optical observations10
Invariant manifolds near $$L_1$$ and $$L_2$$ in the quasi-bicircular problem10
Detection of separatrices and chaotic seas based on orbit amplitudes9
Automated tour design in the Saturnian system9
Sensitivity analysis of polar orbiter motion to lunar viscoelastic tidal deformation8
Periodic orbits in a galactic potential8
Asteroid families: properties, recent advances, and future opportunities8
Orbit averaging applied to inverse-square perturbations8
Laplace–Legendre expansion of the planar planetary Hamiltonian8
Regular n-gon rotating equilibria with logarithm gravitational interaction7
Correction: Mars orientation and rotation angles7
Regularized phase-space volume for the three-body problem7
Orbits of charged particles with an azimuthal initial velocity in a dipole magnetic field7
Lagrange’s planetary equations with time-dependent secular perturbations7
A LiDAR-less approach to autonomous hazard detection and avoidance systems based on semantic segmentation7
Framework for the full N-body problem in SE(3) and its reduction to the circular restricted full three-body problem6
Kepler equation solution without transcendental functions or lookup tables6
Realizations of the interior spherical Bessel harmonic coefficients of a polyhedral body within the Brillouin sphere6
Really perverse periodic solutions of the planar N-body problem6
Design of satellite orbits in the Sun–Earth–Moon system6
GANBISS: a new GPU accelerated N-body code for binary star systems6
Tidal evolution and spin–orbit dynamics for bodies in the viscous regime6
Dynamics around the Earth–Moon triangular points in the Hill restricted 4-body problem6
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
On the effect of the sun on Kordylewski clouds5
Extension of the creep tide theory to exoplanet systems with high stellar obliquity. The dynamic tide of CoRoT-3b5
A new arctangent potential for spherical galaxies and its distribution functions5
“Twist vectors" for central configuration equations5
Revisiting Earth tide parameters used in the development of planetary and lunar ephemeris5
Determination of the parameters of a near-geostationary orbit by two optical measurements5
Distribution of regularized three-body phase-volume5
On the four-body limaçon choreography: maximal superintegrability and choreographic fragmentation5
An attempt to build a dynamical catalog of present-day solar system co-orbitals5
The negative energy N-body problem has finite diameter5
Regularization of the Hill four-body problem with oblate bodies5
Determination of the doubly symmetric periodic orbits in the restricted three-body problem and Hill’s lunar problem4
The capture probability of Dawn into ground-track resonances with Vesta4
Low-energy Earth–Moon transfers via Theory of Functional Connections and homotopy4
Evolution of the characteristic curves in the restricted three-body problem in terms of the mass parameter4
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
Relegation-free closed-form perturbation theory and the domain of secular motions in the restricted three-body problem4
Analytical sensitivity matrix for efficient solution of finite-thrust orbital transfer4
Secular orbital dynamics of the innermost exoplanet of the $$\upsilon $$-Andromedæ system4
Transient-collision trajectories in Hill’s problem with an oblate primary: application to the Mars-Deimos system4
Failures and optimization in computation of asteroid synthetic proper elements4
Assessment of dynamical models for transitioning from the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem to an ephemeris model with applications4
Direct derivation of short-periodic $$J_2$$ corrections using Fourier expansions4
Characterization of asteroid shapes and stability on their surface using super-ellipsoids4
Trajectory-based dust evolution in disks: first results from the RAPID simulation code4
The phase-space architecture in extrasolar systems with two planets in orbits of high mutual inclination3
Implementation and study of a drag model for an N-body problem simulator3
Second-order modeling of the Cassini states of large satellites: I—influence of triaxiality and a subsurface ocean3
Application of the theory of functional connections to the perturbed Lambert’s problem3
On the symmetric central configurations for the planar 1+5-body problem with small arbitrary masses3
Gaia-DR2 asteroid observations and INPOP planetary ephemerides3
On the connection between Newton’s shell theorem, interior spherical Bessel gravity field, and special infinite series3
Exploring the potential of neural networks in early detection of potentially hazardous near-earth objects3
An implicit symplectic solver for high-precision long-term integrations of the Solar System3
A hidden barrier surface complementary to the zero velocity surface in the circular restricted three-body problem3
Reducing roundoff errors in numerical integration of planetary ephemeris3
Understanding flow around planetary moons via finite-time Lyapunov exponent maps3
Orbiting below the Brillouin sphere using shifted spherical harmonics3
Co-orbital asteroids of terrestrial planets affected by the von Zeipel–Lidov–Kozai mechanism3
Study on six DOF for on orbit flight life prediction of low orbit vehicle aerodynamic fusion orbit3
A stochastic optimization algorithm for analyzing planar central and balanced configurations in the n-body problem3
Theory and applications of fast Lyapunov indicators to model problems of celestial mechanics3
Bounds on energy and angular momentum loss in the full n-body problem3
Modeling the resonant dynamics of infinitesimal particles orbiting nonspherical rotating bodies3
Orbital dynamics of smart dust with Poynting–Robertson and solar wind drag3
Resonance perturbation of (5026) Martes and 2005 WW113 asteroid pair3
Mars orientation and rotation angles3
Three-body periodic collisionless equal-mass free-fall orbits revisited3
Invariant manifolds near $$L_1$$ and $$L_2$$ in the Sun–Jupiter elliptic restricted three-body problem I3
Improving the ephemerides of Neptune’s satellites with Gaia, Voyager 2, and ground-based data3
Spin–orbit coupling of the primary body in a binary asteroid system3
The power spectrum indicator, a new and fast method for the early detection of chaos3
The effect of the mass ratio on families of retrograde periodic orbits in the planar CR3BP and their bifurcations2
Tidal dissipation with 3-D finite element deformation code CitcomSVE v2.1: comparisons with the semi-analytical approach, in the context of the Lunar tidal deformations2
The phase space structure of retrograde mean motion resonances with Neptune: the 4/5, 7/9, 5/8 and 8/13 cases2
Variational proof of the existence of periodic orbits in the anisotropic Kepler problem2
On optimal three-impulse Earth–Moon transfers in a four-body model2
A fast method of estimating the gravitational acceleration of asteroids with irregular shapes2
On the first test of the Weak Equivalence Principle in low Earth orbit2
Improved alpha shape-based continuum method for long-term density propagation2
Natural perturbations to produce heliotropic orbits on asteroid 2000 TW602
Polynomial stochastic dynamical indicators2
Forced hovering orbit above the primary in the binary asteroid system2
Adaptive polynomial chaos expansion method for uncertain multiple-revolution Lambert problem2
Correction: Periodic orbits in a galactic potential2
Natural dynamical reduction of the three-body problem2
Symmetric periodic orbits near binary collision in a restricted four-body problem for the figure-eight choreography2
Global branches of non-planar periodic motions of planetary rings2
Exact solution of Vinti orbital motion2
Gravity from surface triangulation: convergence acceleration with nested grids2
Two–layer model via non–quasi–periodic normal form theory2
Spatial distribution of asteroid spin-axes in diameter-based clusters2
On the integral solution of hyperbolic Kepler’s equation2
PETREL19: a new numerical solution of planetary and lunar ephemeris2
Rotation state estimation of slow-rotating multi-reflector defunct spacecraft through laser ranging measurements from a single short arc2
A universal approach for solving the multi-revolution Lambert’s problem2
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