Winter, O. C.Murray, C. D.Muzzio, J. C.FerrazMello, S.Henrard, J.2014-05-202014-05-201996-01-01Chaos In Gravitational N-body Systems. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publ, p. 215-219, 1996.http://hdl.handle.net/11449/33016We have used the Liapunov exponent to explore the phase space of a dynamical system. Considering the planar, circular restricted three-body problem for a mass ratio mu = 10(-3) (close to the Jupiter/Sun case), we have integrated similar to 16,000 starting conditions for orbits started interior to that of the perturber and we have estimated the maximum Liapunov characteristic exponent for each starting condition. Despite the fact that the integrations, in general, are for only a few thousand orbital periods of the secondary, a comparative analysis of the Liapunov exponents for various values of the 'cut-off' gives a good overview of the structure of the phase space. It provides information about the diffusion rates of the various chaotic regions, the location of the regular regions associated with primary resonances and even details such as the location of secondary resonances that produce chaotic regions inside the regular regions of primary resonances.215-219engchaosLiapunov exponentsorbitsTrabalho apresentado em evento10.1007/978-94-009-0307-4_20WOS:A1996BG72A00020Acesso aberto0960024575647258