Clustering SPH Debris into N-body Fragments: A Collisional Code for Planet Formation

arXiv:2606.17348 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-06-15 · Read on arXiv

Samuele Crespi, Mohamad Ali-Dib, Ian Dobbs-Dixon

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-06-15

Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal

Code: https://github.com/malidib/shard

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Clustering — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• alpha — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Center for Astrophysics and Space Science — 1× in this paper
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• SPH-Hydrodynamic Accretion and Remnant Debris — 1× in this paper
• Scaling Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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