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In studies of the three-body problem, bound orbits and especially periodic orbits have traditionally received much attention. Complementary to these, however, are the scattering orbits, where at least one body is unbound initially and (in the generic case) also at least one body escapes after a finite period of close three-body interaction. These scattering orbits play an important role in stellar dynamics. Three-body interactions exchange energy and angular momentum between internal degrees of freedom of binary stars, and external degrees of freedom of both the single stars and the center of mass motion of binaries. In this way three-body scattering can significantly influence the evolution of a star cluster.
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Hut, P. (1984). The Three-Body Problem in Stellar Dynamics. In: Berger, A. (eds) The Big Bang and Georges Lemaître. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6487-7_21
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