On the stability of the hypothetical quintet system of TW Draconis

Abhyankar, K. D. ; Bhatia, R. K. ; Rao, P. D. (1985) On the stability of the hypothetical quintet system of TW Draconis Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 13 . pp. 275-286. ISSN 0304-9523

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Abstract

Aarseth's (1971) NBODY 1 code is used to study the stability of the quintet system of DW Draconis postulated by Abhyankar and Panchatsaram (1984). It is found that the observed (O-C) curve based on the ephemeris by Tremko and Kreiner (1981) can be reproduced by taking appropriate initial conditions, but the system becomes unstable outside the range of observations. The nature of instability is studied.

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Keywords:Eclipsing Binaries; Multiple System; n-Body integration
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