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Tidal Disruption Event: Energy-Space Fallback Diagram

Watch a star's tidal disruption unfold as a 2D specific-orbital-energy diagram: each debris parcel's own Kepler orbit is solved exactly, reproducing the classic Rees (1988) t^-5/3 mass fallback law from first principles.

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This is the 2D, energy-space counterpart to the 3D debris-cloud tidal disruption simulation. Rather than rendering particle positions in a 3D scene, it plots every debris parcel by its fixed specific orbital energy against its live orbital radius, solving each parcel's exact two-body Kepler orbit (elliptical if bound, hyperbolic if unbound) every frame. The classic Rees (1988) t^−5/3 mass-fallback power law is derived analytically from the energy spread and cross-checked live against a numerically-binned histogram of actual parcel return times.

⚙ Under the hood

Watch a star's tidal disruption unfold as a 2D specific-orbital-energy diagram: each debris parcel's own exact Kepler orbit (ellipse or hyperbola) is solved every frame, reproducing the classic Rees (1988) mass fallback rate t^-5/3 power law from first principles instead of a fitted curve.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install