Theorbitalmotionoftheouterfiveplanetsseemsrigorouslystableandquiteregularoverthistime-span(seealsoSection5).
3.2Time–frequencymaps
Althoughtheplanetarymotionexhibitsverylong-termstabilitydefinedasthenon-existenceofcloseencounterevents，thechaoticnatureofplanetarydynamicscanchangetheoscillatoryperiodandamplitudeofplanetaryorbitalmotiongraduallyoversuchlongtime-spans.Evensuchslightfluctuationsoforbitalvariationinthefrequencydomain，particularlyinthecaseofEarth，canpotentiallyhaveasignificanteffectonitssurfaceclimatesystemthroughsolarinsolationvariation(cf.Berger1988).
Togiveanoverviewofthelong-termchangeinperiodicityinplanetaryorbitalmotion，weperformedmanyfastFouriertransformations(FFTs)alongthetimeaxis，andsuperposedtheresultingperiodgramstodrawtwo-dimensionaltime–frequencymaps.Thespecificapproachtodrawingthesetime–frequencymapsinthispaperisverysimple–muchsimplerthanthewaveletanalysisorLaskar's(1990，1993)frequencyanalysis.
Dividethelow-passfilteredorbitaldataintomanyfragmentsofthesamelenh.Thelenhofeachdatasegmentshouldbeamultipleof2inordertoapplytheFFT.
Eachfragmentofthedatahasalargeoverlappingpart:forexample，whentheithdatabeginsfromt=tiandendsatt=ti+T，thenextdatasegmentrangesfromti+δT≤ti+δT+T，whereδT?T.WecontinuethisdivisionuntilwereachacertainnumberNbywhichtn+Treachesthetotalintegrationlenh.
WeapplyanFFTtoeachofthedatafragments，andobtainnfrequencydiagrams.
Ineachfrequencydiagramobtainedabove，thestrenhofperiodicitycanbereplacedbyagrey-scale(orcolour)chart.
Weperformthereplacement，andconnectallthegrey-scale(orcolour)chartsintoonegraphforeachintegration.Thehorizontalaxisofthesenewgraphsshouldbethetime，i.e.thestartingtimesofeachfragmentofdata(ti，wherei=1，…，n).Theverticalaxisrepresentstheperiod(orfrequency)oftheoscillationoforbitalelements.
WehaveadoptedanFFTbecauseofitsoverwhelmingspeed，sincetheamountofnumericaldatatobedecomposedintofrequencycomponentsisterriblyhuge(severaltensofGbytes).
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