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francob

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How to make a rotating particle disc around a binary?
« on: February 25, 2014, 09:54:41 AM »
...to find regions of orbital stability for exoplanets.
If you add a ring to the barycentre of a binary, does it rotate?
On planets it does, but on this barycentre it seem to be static.
« Last Edit: February 28, 2014, 07:50:23 AM by francob »

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Re: How to make a rotating particle disc around a binary?
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2014, 03:48:12 PM »
No easy way to do this... I suspect what you're doing should work, but support for this was never added.

The way to do it would be:
You could create a body at the barycenter with the combined properties of the other bodies, add a ring around that, and then delete this body, but that's not ideal.

We'll make a point of adding support for this in the sequel.