Accretion disc density map movie

Two dimensional accretion disc surface density animation using a logarithmic colour scale for three binary orbits. The secondary rotates anti-clockwise with respect to the inertial binary frame, with mass being added from the L1 point at the top. The solid curve is the Roche lobe of the primary, plotted in a frame that co-rotates with the binary.

Notes on playing the movie

Windows users are recommended to use the latest version of Windows Media Player (version 7 or better) to play movie clips.

Unix users are recommended to use XAnim (with all appropriate codecs installed) to play AVIs.


		Available movies: AVI Windows or Unix (36MB, medium quality) AVI Windows or Unix (153MB, high quality) Simulation & visualisation by Steve Foulkes, et al. The Open University.

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