Visualizing Astrophysical N-body Systems
Abstract
I begin with a brief history of N-body simulation and visualization and then go on to describe various methods for creating images and animations of modern simulations in cosmology and galactic dynamics. These techniques are incorporated into a specialized particle visualization software library called MYRIAD that is designed to render images within large parallel N-body simulations as they run. I present several case studies that explore the application of these methods to animations of star clusters, interacting galaxies and cosmological structure formation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0805.4397,
title = {Visualizing Astrophysical N-body Systems},
author = {John Dubinski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.4397},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
25 pages, accepted in the New Journal of Physics for upcoming Focus issue on Visualization in Physics. Accompanying animations including a free bittorrent download of the DVD GRAVITAS are available at http://www.galaxydynamics.org/gravitas.html