Resonant Dust Ring Sculpted by a Super-Earth (2008)
2008 · Short film
Synopsis
A planet twice the mass of Earth shepherds dust near its orbit into a circumstellar ring structure. Both the planet and the dust structure orbit the host star with a period of 5.2 years. Two regions of enhanced dust density lead and trail the planet, which causes periodic localized brightening. This simulation was computed using NASA GSFC's 420-processor Thunderhead cluster. Stark used the cluster to create a catalog of debris-disk structures caused by Earth-like planets. Animator: Christopher Stark (University of Maryland College Park). Producer: Stefanie Misztal (UMBC).
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