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Using MEGNO to Preserve Computational Resources in N-body Simulations

  • Authors: Lucas Brefka, Mariah G. MacDonald

Lucas Brefka and Mariah G. MacDonald 2026 Research Notes of the AAS 10 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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MEGNO indicator for each simulation with differing initial embryo spacing (Δ0), colored by the fraction of embryos that remained after 30 Myr. Circles represent “chaotic” simulations in which at least 20% of initial bodies experienced a collision, and triangles represent “quiescent” simulations. The dashed lines at MEGNO = 5.36 and Δ0 = 10.8 mark the classifier cuts from the trained decision tree.

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