Symplectic integration for the collisional gravitational

We present a new symplectic integrator designed for collisional gravitational N-body problems which makes use of Kepler solvers. The integrator is also reversible and conserves nine integrals of motion of the N-body problem to machine precision. The integrator is second order, but the order can easi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hernandez, David Michael, Bertschinger, Edmund
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108694
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7648-0926
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-5973