Study of a Set of Symmetric Temporal Transformations for the Study of the Orbital Motion

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to define a new one-parametric family of symmetric temporal transformations with respect to the ellipse. This new family contains as a particular case the eccentric anomaly, the regularized length of arc, and the elliptic anomaly. This family is a particular case of the biparametric family of anomalies introduced by the authors in 2016. The biparametric family comprises the most common anomalies used in the study of the two-body problem. Two approaches of this work have been taken. The first one involves the study of the analytical properties of the symmetric family of anomalies. The second approach explores the improvement of the numerical integration methods when the natural time is replaced by an anomaly of this family.