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The orbital evolution of a massive close binary in the field of small masses is investigated by means of numerical integration of the N body problem with constant N but with generating new masses in place of the masses escaping from the domain of the influence of the binary. Simulating calculations for different initial values demonstrate the stable decrease of the binary orbital semi-major axis in accordance with the conclusion based on the statistical mechanics methods (Gurevich and Chemin, 1978).
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Brumberg V.A., Ivanova T.V. and Tarasevich S.V. In: Space Dynamics and Celestial Mechanics (Ed. K.B. Bhatnagar), p.181, Reidel.
Gurevich L.E. and Chemin A.D. 1978. Introduction into Cosmogony. Nauka, Moscow (in Russian).
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Brumberg, V.A., Ivanova, T.V. (1988). Numerical Investigation of the Orbital Evolution of a Massive Binary in the Field of Small Masses. In: Valtonen, M.J. (eds) The Few Body Problem. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 140. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2917-3_36
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