Well, it’s 2024 and time to start a new volume – the seventh – of the Open Journal of Astrophysics with the very first paper of the new year. The paper in question is the 1st paper in Volume 7 (2024) and the 116th altogether. This one was published on 8th January 2024.
The title is “A new timestep criterion for N-body simulations” and it presents a new method for estimating characteristic dynamical timescales in N-body simulations, based on derivatives up to fourth order, which can be used to adjust timesteps used in numerical computations. The paper is in the folder marked Earth and Planetary Astrophysics as the paper discusses applications to orbital dynamics in planetary systems, but the method is of much wider applicability.
The authors are Dang Pham & Hanno Rein (University of Toronto, Canada) and David S. Spiegel (Google, USA).
Here is the overlay of the paper containing the abstract:
You can click on the image of the overlay to make it larger should you wish to do so. You can find the officially accepted version of the paper on the arXiv here.
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