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Analytical integration in Artificial Satellite Theory may benefit from different canonical simplification techniques, like the elimination of the parallax, the relegation of the nodes, or the elimination of the perigee. These techniques were originally devised in polar-nodal variables, an approach that requires expressing the geopotential as a Pfaffian function in certain invariants of the Kepler problem. However, it has been recently shown that such sophisticated mathematics are not needed if implementing both the relegation of the nodes and the parallax elimination directly in Delaunay variables. Proceeding analogously, it is shown here how the elimination of the perigee can be carried out also in Delaunay variables. In this way the construction of the simplification algorithm becomes elementary, on one hand, and the computation of the transformation series is achieved with considerable savings, on the other, reducing the total number of terms of the elimination of the perigee to about one third of the number of terms required in the classical approach.
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Approaches based on non-osculating elements are also possible (Gurfil 2004).
Definitions related to the Lie transformations lingo may be consulted in the book of Ferraz-Mello (2007), for instance.
Note that, after the different transformations, the transformed Hamiltonian continues to represent perturbed Keplerian motion, and hence the usual relations of elliptic motion still apply in spite of the different meaning of the prime variables from the original ones.
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Part of this research has been supported by the Government of Spain (Projects AYA 2009-11896, AYA 2010-18796, and grant Fomenta 2010/16 of Gobierno de La Rioja).
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The integration “constant” \(V_2\) is
The term \(W_3\) of the generating function of the elimination of the perigee is
where the integration constant \(V_3\) is
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Lara, M., San-Juan, J.F. & López-Ochoa, L.M. Delaunay variables approach to the elimination of the perigee in Artificial Satellite Theory. Celest Mech Dyn Astr 120, 39–56 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-014-9559-2
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