2 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
Origins of Mercury's Big Heart of Iron: Exploring Pathways to Form High Core Mass Fraction (CMF) Planets via N-body Simulations
Haniyeh Tajer, Ji Wang, Anna C. Childs +3
Mercury's core mass fraction (CMF) is ~0.7, more than double that of the other rocky planets in the solar system, which have CMFs of ~0.3. The origin of Mercury's large, iron-rich…
astro-ph.EP2025
Collisional Fragmentation Support in TRACE
Tiger Lu, Haniyeh Tajer, David M. Hernandez +3
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 addi…