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Acrete (basic)

This is Steve Gilham's first iteration, published in White Dwarf back in 1984.

I have ran the article through a web ocr utility, but abandoned cleaning that up until I have more time.

Basic Assumptions:

Features

  • Generates a variety of primary stars, based on some probability of their occurrence and bounded by the max and minimum mass that was estimated to potentially harbour planets in a stable system at the time..

  • see notes on Dole's paper

Limitations:

see notes on Dole's paper

In Recreation:

  • No way to easily recreate exact tests results without the original random number generator

  • Basic is not an easily language to understand when coming from a more modern background

With the Model:

  • No Attempt was made to alter the dust cloud calculations for non 1 solar mass stars.

Compilation

Its written in ibm basic which I could not even begin to guess how to compile. Given later code is more interesting, any such attempts are on the backburner.

see here for the status on Gilham's latest code