readme_020320 Files with particles' position & velocity cr123_127.tar contains 1000 snapshots, 0 - 200 Chariklo rotation periods snapshots are stored as unformatted data =269 MB examples: unformatted: cr123_127_elon02_eta01_s150_n10_soft_possave500.dat after 100 periods cr123_127_elon02_eta01_s150_n10_soft_possave1000.dat after 200 periods same examples as formatted ascii files: cr123_127_elon02_eta01_s150_n10_soft_possave500_ascii.dat cr123_127_elon02_eta01_s150_n10_soft_possave1000_ascii.dat format of the files: (note that the type of variables has to be specified before reading) a,b,c scalars, double time,omeb scalars, double n scalar, 4-byte integer x float array with n elements y -"- z -"- vx -"- vy -"- vz -"- EJ -"- x,y,z,vx,vy,vz are positions and velocities in inertial system EJ jacobi energy/mass unit to convert to rotating one (intially Chariklo major axis = x-axis) sino=sin(time*omeb) coso=cos(time*omeb) xrot= x*coso +y*sino yrot=-x*sino +y*coso Simulation parameters: a=1. GM=1. b=0.98 c=1. chariklo Ome=0.7600627 --> period=8.26667 refrad=00.993198 f=-0.010036 in these units corotation r=1.19904 Lz=1.09274 2:3 r=1.57294 Lz 1.25266