GALACTIC ORBIT CONSOLE

VORTEX DYNAMICS LAB · v3

READY — TRUNCATED

Base mass model

Gravitating components

NFW dark halocalibrated: v_c(8.2) = 229 km/s at scale 1

Gravitating torusreal ring-quadrature gravity

Polar lobe pairtwo Plummer spheres at ±z

Particle–particle repulsion mean-field: particles repel through their captured collective density

No population captured yet.

Observational gates

Model mass—

Escape @ origin—1 unit = —

v_c (8.2 kpc)—obs 228.9 ± 4

Σ_z (8.2, 1.1)—obs 68–80

Escape @ Sun—obs 528 +24/−25

Circular-orbit gaps—5–25 kpc

live v_c(R) vs Eilers 2019 band — updates as you edit, before launching

Reference display

Fermi bubble surfacedisplay-only, non-gravitating eROSITA shell≈14 kpc, approximate Visible-matter cloud

Launch vector 100 = escape @ origin

Azimuth sweep surfacedisplay-only revolution of this orbit

magnitude — · —

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Launch position

Presets

Compare runs

Pin the current trajectory, then change anything and relaunch — the pinned run stays as an amber ghost in the 3D and R–z views, with its model's rotation curve dashed in the Rotation view.

Population

Launches N particles spread around the current vector and accumulates their time-averaged (R, z) occupancy — the population-level test of any geometry claim.

Uniform azimuth 0 → 2πaxisymmetric emission

Injection

Age fadeolder particles dim; off = full brightness at every age (hue still encodes age)

The rate profile and age fade are display-time settings — switch them live, no recompute. Duration and coast set the integration span and need a relaunch.

Run

This population was computed with a different mass model, launch vector, injection window, or repulsion field than the current one — relaunch it to compare like with like.

Time in bubble—

Time |z| < 1 kpc—

Time r < 1 kpc—

Classes B·M·U—

Worst |ΔE|/|Φ₀|—

Export

t_obs——

Snapshot in bubble—

In disk |z| < 1 kpc—

Median age (|z| > 2 kpc)—

Beyond 30 kpc—

Export

Scrub the transport bar to move the observation time — the 3D plume, the R–z snapshot, and the sky view all follow it.

Export & share

Exports carry full provenance: model spec, launch state, integrator settings, classification, and the run URL. Population runs (ensemble/fountain) offer their own JSON export next to their readouts in the Ensemble pane.

Run history

Launched runs appear here. Click one to restore it exactly.

Model boundary

Collisionless dynamics only: no gas drag, radiation, shocks, magnetic fields, or star formation. Particles are massless test bodies — torus/lobe components add the gravity of an assumed distribution, and the optional particle–particle repulsion couples particles only through a frozen mean-field snapshot of their collective density (no live pairwise forces, no time-dependent self-consistency; self-interaction matters above ~3×10⁹ M☉ equivalent). Bubble surfaces are observational reference geometry. Central escape speeds carry a ~15–20% systematic from the smoothed bulge.

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Telemetry

t— R— z— speed— E/|Φ₀|— L_z— |ΔE|/|Φ₀|— period—

Integrating trajectory composite potential · adaptive RK4

0.0 Myr

Warp 1.00 osc/s

Horizon 100 osc

Galactic Orbit Console

Gravity-only test-particle and ensemble dynamics in composite Milky Way potentials. Velocity units are percent of escape speed at the origin of the active model.

Keyboard

`Enter`	Launch / recompute	`Space`	Pause / resume
`1`–`4`	Switch views	`R`	Reset camera
`P`	Pin / unpin compare run	`?`	This help

Number fields

Drag a value sideways to scrub it · click to type · −/+ hold to repeat · arrows step, PageUp/Down step ×10.

Fountain mode

Ensemble → Fountain launches a continuous-injection population: particles leave the source over an extended window instead of all at once. The transport bar then scrubs the observation time — while the source is on the plume stays sharp; after shutoff you watch it phase-mix. The rate profile (steady / decaying) and age fade reweight/restyle live, without re-integrating. Copy run link includes the fountain: opening the link re-runs it automatically and — when a t_obs was set — lands there paused. The captured repulsion field never rides a URL; links carry the coupling and tell the opener to recapture.

Particle–particle repulsion

Model → Particle–particle repulsion captures the current population's density and rebuilds it as a repulsive mean-field component (the self-gravity ring machinery with a negative coupling): every particle repels every other through their collective smoothed density. The field is frozen at capture time — relaunch to iterate toward self-consistency. Not URL-shareable (the captured field is data, not parameters).

Sidebar

Drag the divider between the sidebar and the viewport to resize the sidebar; the width is remembered. Keyboard (with the divider focused): ←/→ adjust, Home/End jump to min/max, Enter or double-click resets.

Honesty notes

Periods are labeled by how they were measured ("<1 oscillation" when unmeasured, "irregular" when interval scatter exceeds 25%). Truncated integrations carry a badge. Ensemble occupancy fractions divide by total integrated time. Fountain snapshots are quadratures over a uniform age resample (the Δ shown in panel subtitles), not raw integrator steps. Exports embed full provenance.