The Starlab Environment for Dense Stellar Systems
| dc.creator | Hut, Piet | |
| dc.date | 2002-04-25 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:03:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:03:30Z | |
| dc.description | Traditionally, a simulation of a dense stellar system required choosing an initial model, running an integrator, and analyzing the output. Almost all of the effort went into writing a clever integrator that could handle binaries, triples and encounters between various multiple systems efficiently. Recently, the scope and complexity of these simulations has increased dramatically, for three reasons: 1) the sheer size of the data sets, measured in Terabytes, make traditional `awking and grepping' of a single output file impractical; 2) the addition of stellar evolution data brings qualitatively new challenges to the data reduction; 3) increased realism of the simulations invites realistic forms of `SOS': Simulations of Observations of Simulations, to be compared directly with observations. We are now witnessing a shift toward the construction of archives as well as tailored forms of visualization including the use of virtual reality simulators and planetarium domes, and a coupling of both with budding efforts in constructing virtual observatories. This review describes these new trends, presenting Starlab as the first example of a full software environment for realistic large-scale simulations of dense stellar systems. | |
| dc.description | 12 pages, 1 figure, to appear in "Astrophysical Supercomputing Using Particle Simulations", eds. P. Hut and J. Makino, IAU Symposium 208, Tokyo, July 2001 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204431 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204431 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/4404 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | The Starlab Environment for Dense Stellar Systems | |
| dc.type | text |