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The "artist's animation" show periapsis getting higher or lower (depending on how you interpret direction of motion of the star) which is not how orbits work.
by lmilcin 5y ago
The "artist's animation" show periapsis getting higher or lower (depending on how you interpret direction of motion of the star) which is not how orbits work.
These people (linked in the article) calculated the effect to be "12' per orbital period":
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37813-20/aa37813-20.html https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37813-...
So no, not even close to being as dramatic as on "artist's animation".
- xadhominemx 5y agoThe animation exaggerates the effect of course. But I don’t think the periapsis is modeled incorrectly. Not sure why you are so angry about this.