Exoplanet Disks In Formation

  • Released Thursday, June 25th, 2015
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:49PM
  • ID: 4317

This visualization provides a full 360-degree rotating tour of the disk, face-on to edge-on and back.

These visualizations were developed using a simulation run from the SMACK (Superparticle-Method Algorithm for Collisions in Kuiper belts) code.

This is a still image from the run illustrating an edge-on view of the disk.

This is a still image from the run illustrating an edge-on view of the disk.

This visualization was generated using half of the disk, tilting down from top view to edge on to better reveal the profile of the disk material.

This is a thin sliver of disk particles along a line through the disk. This was generated to highlight the particle profile.

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Series

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Papers used in this visualization

A SMACK Model of Colliding Planetesimals and Dust in the β Pictoris Debris Disk: Thermal Radiation and Scattered Light