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We report 90 new observations of three post common envelope binaries at primary eclipse spanning between December 2018 to February 2022. We combine recent primary eclipse timing observations with previously published values to search for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Xinyu Mai , Robert L. Mutel

We construct a symplectic, globally defined, minimal-coordinate, equivariant integrator on products of 2-spheres. Examples of corresponding Hamiltonian systems, called spin systems, include the reduced free rigid body, the motion of point…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-19 Robert I. McLachlan , Klas Modin , Olivier Verdier

We study supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary eccentricity of equal-mass galaxy mergers in $N$-body simulations with the KETJU code, which combines the GAGDET-4 fast multipole gravity solver with accurate regularised integration and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-22 Alexander Rawlings , Matias Mannerkoski , Peter H. Johansson , Thorsten Naab

The time-dependent restricted $(n+1)$-body problem concerns the study of a massless body (satellite) under the influence of the gravitational field generated by $n$ primary bodies following a periodic solution of the $n$-body problem. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Carlos Barrera , Abimael Bengochea , Carlos García-Azpeitia

The kinetic term of the $N$-body Hamiltonian system defined on the surface of the sphere is non-separable. As a result, standard explicit symplectic integrators are inapplicable. We exploit an underlying hierarchy in the structure of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Ana Silva , Eitan Ben Av , Efi Efrati

The reproducibility of experiments is one of the main principles of the scientific method. However, numerical N-body experiments, especially those of planetary systems, are currently not reproducible. In the most optimistic scenario, they…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-26 Hanno Rein , Daniel Tamayo

In order to perform numerical studies of long-term stability in nonlinear Hamiltonian systems, one needs a numerical integration algorithm which is symplectic. Further, this algorithm should be fast and accurate. In this paper, we propose…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Govindan Rangarajan

This paper presents in detail our fast semistochastic heat-bath configuration interaction (SHCI) method for solving the many-body Schrodinger equation. We identify and eliminate computational bottlenecks in both the variational and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-01-14 Junhao Li , Matt Otten , Adam A Holmes , Sandeep Sharma , Cyrus J. Umrigar

In a Keplerian system, a large number of bodies orbit a central mass. Accretion disks, protoplanetary disks, asteroid belts, and planetary rings are examples. Simulations of these systems require algorithms that are computationally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 P. M. Visser

Hamiltonian systems such as the gravitational N-body problem have time-reversal symmetry. However, all numerical N-body integration schemes, including symplectic ones, respect this property only approximately. In this paper, we present the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Hanno Rein , Daniel Tamayo

Finite element methods for electromagnetic problems modeled by Maxwell-type equations are highly sensitive to the conformity of approximation spaces, and non-conforming methods may cause loss of convergence. This fact leads to an essential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen , Ruchi Guo

The singularities that arise in elliptic boundary value problems are treated locally by a singular function boundary integral method. This method extracts the leading singular coefficients from a series expansion that describes the local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-21 George Pashos , Athanasios G. Papathanasiou , Andreas G. Boudouvis

We provide an iterative solution approach for the indefinite Helmholtz equation discretised using finite elements, based upon a Hermitian Skew-Hermitian Splitting (HSS) iteration applied to the shifted operator, and prove that the iteration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Colin J Cotter , Kars Knook , Joshua Hope-Collins

We propose a family of integrators, Flow-Composed Implicit Runge-Kutta (FCIRK) methods, for perturbations of nonlinear ordinary differential equations, consisting of the composition of flows of the unperturbed part alternated with one step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Mikel Antoñana , Joseba Makazaga , Ander Murua

In this work we revisit the problem of the dynamical stability of hierarchical triple systems with applications to circumbinary planetary orbits. We carry out more than 3 10^8 numerical simulations of planets between the size of Mercury and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Nikolaos Georgakarakos , Siegfried Eggl , Mohamad Ali-Dib , Ian Dobbs-Dixon

Symplectic integrators evolve dynamical systems according to modified Hamiltonians whose error terms are also well-defined Hamiltonians. The error of the algorithm is the sum of each error Hamiltonian's perturbation on the exact solution.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Siu A. Chin

We construct a new global, fully analytic, approximate spacetime which accurately describes the dynamics of non-precessing, spinning black hole binaries during the inspiral phase of the relativistic merger process. This approximate solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 Brennan Ireland , Bruno C. Mundim , Hiroyuki Nakano , Manuela Campanelli

We present a novel, computationally efficient approach to accelerate quantum optimal control calculations of large multi-qubit systems used in a variety of quantum computing applications. By leveraging the intrinsic symmetry of finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Xian Wang , Mahmut Sait Okyay , Anshuman Kumar , Bryan M. Wong

Direct $N$-body simulations of a large number of particles, especially in the study of planetesimal dynamics and planet formation, have been computationally challenging even with modern machines. This work presents the combination of fully…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-25 Tommy Chi Ho Lau , Man Hoi Lee

Many exoplanets are discovered in binary star systems in internal or in circumbinary orbits. Whether the planet can be habitable or not depends on the possibility to maintain liquid water on its surface, and therefore on the luminosity of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 G. De Cesare , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta