Collisional Fragmentation Support in TRACE

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Collisional Fragmentation Support in TRACE

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Tiger Lu, Haniyeh Tajer, David M. Hernandez, Hanno Rein, Yurou Liu, Malena Rice

Abstract

We present improved collision support for TRACE, a state-of-the-art hybrid integrator in REBOUND. TRACE now supports collisional fragmentation and can handle both removing and adding particles mid-timestep. We describe the back-end logic implemented for robust collision support, and compare TRACE's performance to other integrators including MERCURIUS on a large-N protoplanetary disk simulation with various collision prescriptions, a system which TRACE previously could not handle. TRACE matches the behavior of these integrators, while offering potentially vast speedups of over 70x. All updates described in this Note are available with the most recent public release of REBOUND.

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