Code for our paper "Extreme close approaches in hierarchical triple systems with comparable masses", N. Haim & B. Katz, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 479, Issue 3, September 2018 (MNRAS version)

The code includes the simulations done in the paper.

Is my system about to collide?

For a quick prediction if your three-body system is about to collide simply plug your initial conditions in predict_collision_from_initial_conditions.py

Citation

If you find our work useful in your research, please consider citing:

@article{haim2018extreme,
title={Extreme close approaches in hierarchical triple systems with comparable masses},
author={Haim, Niv and Katz, Boaz},
journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
volume={479},
number={3},
pages={3155--3166},
year={2018},
publisher={Oxford University Press}
}