Collision dynamics in Hénon-Heiles’ two-body problem
Keyword(s):
Blow Up
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We tackle the two-body problem associated to H?non-Heiles? potential in the special case of the collision singularity. Using McGehee-type transformations of the second kind, we blow up the singularity and replace it by the collision manifold Mc pasted on the phase spece. We fully describe the flow on Mc. This flow is similar to analogous flows met in post-Newtonian two-body problems.