N-MODY: A Code for Collisionless N-body Simulations in Modified Newtonian Dynamics
Abstract
N-MODY is a parallel particle-mesh code for collisionless N-body simulations in modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). N-MODY is based on a numerical potential solver in spherical coordinates that solves the non-linear MOND field equation, and is ideally suited to simulate isolated stellar systems. N-MODY can be used also to compute the MOND potential of arbitrary static density distributions. A few applications of N-MODY indicate that some astrophysically relevant dynamical processes are profoundly different in MOND and in Newtonian gravity with dark matter.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- February 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011ascl.soft02001L
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- Software