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Kozai mechanism

(ZLK, ZKL, Lidov-Kozai mechanism, Lidov-Kozai effect, Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai mechanism)
(an effect on an orbit by another, more distant orbiting body)

The Kozai mechanism (or see below for other names in use) is a type of effect on a body's orbit by another body orbiting further from the primary body causing a secular cycle of oscillations between more orbital inclination and more eccentricity, termed a Kozai oscillation or Kozai cycle. For example, the Moon could affect an artificial satellite also orbiting Earth by the mechanism. The mechanism is significant for some asteroids, moons, and extra-solar planets.

The effect was described by Soviet, Michael Lidov in 1961 and Japanese, Yoshihide Kozai in 1962, and has since been identified in the earlier 20th-century work of Swedish astrophysicist, Edvard Hugo von Zeipel, and is now referred to with a variety of phrases: Lidov-Kozai mechanism, LK mechanism, Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai mechanism, (or effect rather than mechanism), abbreviated ZLK, but often the names or initials are listed in a different order, such as Kozai-Lidov and ZKL.


(celestial mechanics,dynamics)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozai_mechanism
http://exoplanets.co/extrasolar-planets/what-is-the-kozai-effect-or-kozai-mechanism.html
https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/sns/ipmu%2520kozai.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1962P%26SS....9..719L/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1962AJ.....67..591K/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1910AN....183..345V/abstract

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black hole merger

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