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Significant improvement in planetary system simulations from statistical averaging

David M. Hernandez; Eric Agol; Matthew J. Holman; Sam Hadden · 2021 · arXiv

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Abstract (excerpt)

Symplectic integrators are widely used for the study of planetary dynamics and other $N$-body problems. In a study of the outer Solar system, we demonstrate that individual symplectic integrations can yield biased errors in the semi-major axes and possibly other orbital elements. The bias is resolved by studying an ensemble of initial conditions of the outer Solar system. Such statistical sampling could significantly improve measurement of planetary system properties like their secular frequencies. We also compared the distributions of action-like variables between high and low accuracy integr

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