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The Orbiting and Colliding Galaxies 3D Model is a three-dimensional extension of the Alar and Juri Toomres' 1972 supercomputer model of colliding galaxies. This model assumes that galactic centers are point masses and the orbiting stars do not interact with each other (the galactic cores interact with each other and the individual stars). Unlike the Toomres' model (and the Colliding Galaxies model by Christian and Lim), both galactic cores begin with a compliment of stars orbiting their respective cores. These stars start in a 3-D circular orbit about the center of each galaxy in one plane. When the two galaxies pass each other they produce the long spiraling tails.
The Orbiting and Colliding Galaxies Model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) modeling tool. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the ejs_comp_phys_colliding_galaxies3d.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java (JRE). 
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Poster PresentationPhysics 200 poster presented during the 2011 Davidson College student research symposium. download 532kb .pdf Published: June 15, 2011
Orbiting and Colliding Galaxies 2D ModelTwo Dimensional Version of the 3D model. download 787kb .jar Published: June 15, 2011 previous versions
The Mice: Colliding Galaxies in 3DThis is a special case of the Orbiting and Colliding Galaxies 3D Model with initial conditions specifically set to mimic The Mice. download 1105kb .jar Published: June 15, 2011 previous versions
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Colliding and Orbiting Galaxies 3D Source CodeThe source code zip archive contains an XML representation of the Colliding and Orbiting Galaxies 3D Model. Unzip this archive in your Ejs workspace to… more... download 79kb .zip Published: June 15, 2011 previous versions
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