B. S. Kushvah*, J. P. Sharma and B. Ishwar
University Department of Mathematics, B.R.A. Bihar University
Muzaffarpur 842 001, India
Abstract. Higher order normalizations are performed in the generalized photogravitational restricted three body problem with Poynting-Robertson drag. Here we have taken bigger primary as a source of radiation and smaller primary as an oblate spheroid. Whittaker method is used to transform the second order part of the Hamiltonian into the normal form. We have also performed Birkhoff 's normalization of the Hamiltonian. For this we have utilized Henrard's method and expanded the coordinates of the infinitesimal body in double D'Alembert series. We have found the values of first and second order components. They are affected by radiation pressure, oblateness and P-R drag. Finally we obtained the third order part of the Hamiltonian zero.
Keywords: celestial mechanics