Binary system coalescence animation

A function to create an animation to model the coalescence of a -stars- binary system.

For pedagogic / scientific diffusion purpose.

F5 in Binary_system_coalescence.m or Binary_system_coalescence in Matlab(R) console to run the main program and create the animation file named 'Binary_system_coalescence.gif' that will appear in the same directory as you registered this .m file.

Three steps are : inspiral, merging and ring down.

Some parameters -like the star paths sampling step- may be tuned in the file header.

To benefit from all the file information, be sure to download the file, not to just copy and paste it.