Collisional Fragmentation Support in TRACE

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Main Authors: Lu, Tiger, Tajer, Haniyeh, Hernandez, David M., Rein, Hanno, Liu, Yurou, Rice, Malena
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Published: 2025
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author Lu, Tiger
Tajer, Haniyeh
Hernandez, David M.
Rein, Hanno
Liu, Yurou
Rice, Malena
author_facet Lu, Tiger
Tajer, Haniyeh
Hernandez, David M.
Rein, Hanno
Liu, Yurou
Rice, Malena
contents 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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spellingShingle Collisional Fragmentation Support in TRACE
Lu, Tiger
Tajer, Haniyeh
Hernandez, David M.
Rein, Hanno
Liu, Yurou
Rice, Malena
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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.
title Collisional Fragmentation Support in TRACE
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04399