T Tauri stars with accretion discs - Game bug?
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The thing that is odd to me is that the orbits within the disk are so neat and flat. There should be lumpy sections, greater altitude and chaos to the disk, eddies and swirls where mass is collecting into planets. There should also be a lot of haze from the leftover gasses and material that
In general these protoplanetary disks just look way too clean and orderly.
In general these protoplanetary disks just look way too clean and orderly.
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I dont know to be honest.
FD did post a screenshot of something like this in a recent newsletter , so I think it must be normal.
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Was just about to ask
No. A protoplanetary disk is initially made from dust and gas, not mountain sized rocks. It's still in the process of cooling down and accumulating. So it would be quite different from the debris found in rings of Saturn for instance.
Well you may be assuming that the disk formed via accumulation. But this disk is so small it could have formed via capture of another body. In which case, some would fall in, some would get ejected, and some may form a smaller residual planet. A stable ring system with a narrow inner ring though seems unlikely in a T Tauri star.
A more realistic sized protoplanetary disk would be many times the diameter of a neptunian orbit. The image in the OP above looks to less than 1AU.
for example the protoplanetary disk below is about 90,000 Ls across:
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But you're suggesting material can happily sit in orbit less than half a diameter away from the star? Can you imagine the forces less than half a diameter away from a star? The coronal plasma, solar wind, not to mention the sheer temp?
The image you included, the temptation is to assume the ball in the middle is the star? But I suspect it's a tiny dot lost in the middle surely?
The image you included, the temptation is to assume the ball in the middle is the star? But I suspect it's a tiny dot lost in the middle surely?
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Mostly because the timescale of stars and astronomy in general does not play well with us.
You may have seen videos where it speeds around it while getting sucked in, well, that is happening most likely, but the timescale is WAY off.
Everything in terms of astronomy happens on an entirely different scale, so these kinds of discs for a human would not seem 'that' active.
Though I would agree graphics could use a tweak to indicate that they are falling into the star.
Radius of that disk (in real photo, star is HL Tauri) is ~90 AUs or, in more familiar units 45000 LSs; that's three times the distance from Sun to Neptune, so... nope. I believe that -if we could remove the disk- star should appear as tiny bright dot, as you've already suspected
I'd guess that protoplanetary disks in ED are either non-existent or perhaps miniaturized. Probably due to some engine limitation.
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Does it show up that way in game? has anyone been in one?
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I've just found my first L-type with rings.
