Self-Consistent Spin, Tidal and Dynamical Equations of Motion in the REBOUNDx Framework
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2023-05-10 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Computational Physics
Abstract
We have introduced self-consistent spin, tidal and dynamical equations of motion into REBOUNDx, a library of additional effects for the popular N-body integrator REBOUND. The equations of motion used are derived from the constant time lag approximation to the equilibrium tide model of tidal friction. These effects will allow the study of a variety of systems where the full dynamical picture cannot be encapsulated by point particle dynamics. We provide several test cases and benchmark the code's performance against analytic predictions. The open-source code is available in the most recent release of REBOUNDx.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2303.00006,
title = {Self-Consistent Spin, Tidal and Dynamical Equations of Motion in the REBOUNDx Framework},
author = {Tiger Lu and Hanno Rein and Daniel Tamayo and Sam Hadden and Rosemary Mardling and Sarah C. Millholland and Gregory Laughlin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.00006},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
Accepted to ApJ. 15 pages, 6 figures