📅 2025-11-29 — Session: Astrophysical Calculations and Stellar Encounter Analysis
🕒 17:40–18:00
🏷️ Labels: Astrophysics, Python, Stellar Encounters, Gravitational Physics
📂 Project: Dev
Session Goal
The session aimed to execute various astrophysical calculations using Python and analyze the impact of stellar encounters on the solar system.
Key Activities
- Developed Python scripts to calculate gravitational acceleration of celestial bodies, focusing on black holes and the Sun.
- Calculated acceleration on the Sun for different solar mass multiples.
- Computed volume and density of a disk with given parameters.
- Determined the rate of expansion in astronomy, converting velocities to parsecs per year.
- Calculated focusing factors for gravitational interactions involving black holes and the Sun.
- Implemented a function to calculate delta-v for spacecrafts based on celestial body mass and initial velocity.
- Analyzed the potential impact of a stellar-mass black hole on Earth’s orbit.
- Conducted research on significant stellar encounters and their implications on the Oort cloud and comet showers.
Achievements
- Successfully executed multiple Python scripts for astrophysical calculations.
- Gained insights into the effects of stellar encounters on the solar system, particularly regarding the Oort cloud and comet showers.
Pending Tasks
- Further research into the implications of specific stellar encounters such as Scholz’s star and Gliese 710 on the solar system’s dynamics.