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Title: SMACK: A NEW ALGORITHM FOR MODELING COLLISIONS AND DYNAMICS OF PLANETESIMALS IN DEBRIS DISKS

Abstract

We present the Superparticle-Method/Algorithm for Collisions in Kuiper belts and debris disks (SMACK), a new method for simultaneously modeling, in three dimensions, the collisional and dynamical evolution of planetesimals in a debris disk with planets. SMACK can simulate azimuthal asymmetries and how these asymmetries evolve over time. We show that SMACK is stable to numerical viscosity and numerical heating over 10{sup 7} yr and that it can reproduce analytic models of disk evolution. We use SMACK to model the evolution of a debris ring containing a planet on an eccentric orbit. Differential precession creates a spiral structure as the ring evolves, but collisions subsequently break up the spiral, leaving a narrower eccentric ring.

Authors:
 [1]; ;  [2];  [3]
  1. Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 (United States)
  2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory, Code 667, Greenbelt, MD 21230 (United States)
  3. Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540 (United States)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22270565
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Astrophysical Journal
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 777; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0004-637X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; ALGORITHMS; ASTROPHYSICS; ASYMMETRY; COLLISIONS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; ORBITS; PLANETS; PRECESSION; VISCOSITY

Citation Formats

Nesvold, Erika R., Kuchner, Marc J., Pan, Margaret, and Rein, Hanno. SMACK: A NEW ALGORITHM FOR MODELING COLLISIONS AND DYNAMICS OF PLANETESIMALS IN DEBRIS DISKS. United States: N. p., 2013. Web. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/777/2/144.
Nesvold, Erika R., Kuchner, Marc J., Pan, Margaret, & Rein, Hanno. SMACK: A NEW ALGORITHM FOR MODELING COLLISIONS AND DYNAMICS OF PLANETESIMALS IN DEBRIS DISKS. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/777/2/144
Nesvold, Erika R., Kuchner, Marc J., Pan, Margaret, and Rein, Hanno. 2013. "SMACK: A NEW ALGORITHM FOR MODELING COLLISIONS AND DYNAMICS OF PLANETESIMALS IN DEBRIS DISKS". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/777/2/144.
@article{osti_22270565,
title = {SMACK: A NEW ALGORITHM FOR MODELING COLLISIONS AND DYNAMICS OF PLANETESIMALS IN DEBRIS DISKS},
author = {Nesvold, Erika R. and Kuchner, Marc J. and Pan, Margaret and Rein, Hanno},
abstractNote = {We present the Superparticle-Method/Algorithm for Collisions in Kuiper belts and debris disks (SMACK), a new method for simultaneously modeling, in three dimensions, the collisional and dynamical evolution of planetesimals in a debris disk with planets. SMACK can simulate azimuthal asymmetries and how these asymmetries evolve over time. We show that SMACK is stable to numerical viscosity and numerical heating over 10{sup 7} yr and that it can reproduce analytic models of disk evolution. We use SMACK to model the evolution of a debris ring containing a planet on an eccentric orbit. Differential precession creates a spiral structure as the ring evolves, but collisions subsequently break up the spiral, leaving a narrower eccentric ring.},
doi = {10.1088/0004-637X/777/2/144},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22270565}, journal = {Astrophysical Journal},
issn = {0004-637X},
number = 2,
volume = 777,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Nov 10 00:00:00 EST 2013},
month = {Sun Nov 10 00:00:00 EST 2013}
}