In this paper, we present a study on the impact of radiation pressure and circumstellar dust on the motion of a test particle in the framework of the restricted four-body problem under the Manev’s field. We show that the distribution of equilibrium points on the plane of motion is slightly different from that of the classical Newtonian problem. With the aid of the Lyapunov characteristic exponents, we show that the system is sensitive to changes in initial conditions; hence, the orbit of the system is found to be chaotic in the phase space for the given initial conditions. Furthermore, a numerical application of this model to a stellar system (Gliese 667C) is considered, which validates the dependence of the equilibrium points on the mass parameter. We show that the non-collinear equilibrium points of this stellar system are distributed symmetrically about the
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Astrodynamics 2021, 5 (2): 77-89
Published: 07 November 2020
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