@elite-dangerous-almanac/core 0.2.1 → 0.2.2

package/dist/astro/body-rings.d.ts

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+import { c as BodyRing, b as BodyProperties } from '../body-scan-CEUYjCfH.js';
+import { RocheLimits } from './body-physics.js';
+import './system-address-input.js';
+
+/**
+ * Rings and belts: how fast they turn, how thinly their mass is spread, whether the game
+ * draws them at all, and where the material could have survived forming.
+ *
+ * Every function takes a {@link BodyRing} — one entry of a scan's
+ * {@link BodyProperties.Rings | Rings} array — and, where the maths needs the body the
+ * ring goes round, that body as a second argument. Radii are metres, as the journal
+ * writes them. Both types are exported from `../astro`.
+ *
+ * **Elite Dangerous rings are not Keplerian.** In a real ring every particle keeps its own
+ * orbit, so the inner edge outruns the outer one. The game instead turns the whole ring as
+ * one rigid sheet: a single period for all of it, which makes the *outer* edge the faster
+ * one. {@link ringDynamics} models that, and the note on it explains where its one fitted
+ * constant comes from.
+ *
+ * **`MassMT` is not an SI megatonne.** See {@link ringSurfaceDensity} before converting a
+ * ring's mass to kilograms.
+ *
+ * The maths is ported from the Canonn Research Group's
+ * [canonn-signals](https://github.com/canonn-science/canonn-signals), whose ring model is
+ * their own observational research; see
+ * [ATTRIBUTIONS.md](https://github.com/DarkSession/Elite-Dangerous-Almanac/blob/main/ATTRIBUTIONS.md).
+ *
+ * @example
+ * ```ts
+ * import { ringParticleDensity } from '@elite-dangerous-almanac/core/astro/body-rings';
+ *
+ * ringParticleDensity('eRingClass_Icy'); // -> 1000
+ * ringParticleDensity('eRingClass_MetalRich'); // -> 4500
+ * ```
+ *
+ * @packageDocumentation
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Fraction of a ring's width at which its single rotation period is taken —
+ * {@link ringDynamics} explains where the figure comes from.
+ */
+declare const RING_NOMINAL_RADIUS_FRACTION: number;
+/**
+ * Surface density, in Mt/km², at or above which the game draws a ring — see
+ * {@link isInvisibleRing}.
+ */
+declare const VISIBLE_RING_MIN_SURFACE_DENSITY = 0.1;
+/**
+ * Width, in metres, below which a ring is drawn whatever its density — see
+ * {@link isInvisibleRing}.
+ */
+declare const VISIBLE_RING_MAX_WIDTH = 1000000000;
+/** How fast a ring turns, and how fast each of its edges is therefore moving. */
+interface RingDynamics {
+    /** The single period the whole ring turns in, in seconds. */
+    readonly orbitalPeriod: number;
+    /** The radius that period is taken at, in metres — see {@link ringDynamics}. */
+    readonly nominalRadius: number;
+    /** Speed of the inner edge, in m/s. The slower one, because the ring turns rigidly. */
+    readonly innerVelocity: number;
+    /** Speed of the outer edge, in m/s. */
+    readonly outerVelocity: number;
+}
+/**
+ * The density assumed for the particles making up a ring of a given class, in kg/m³.
+ *
+ * @remarks
+ * A scan reports what a ring is made of but never how dense its particles are, and the
+ * Roche limit that says where the material could have survived needs one. These are the
+ * standing assumptions the Canonn tooling uses: water ice, silicate rock, and iron-nickel
+ * metal.
+ *
+ * @param ringClass - A ring's {@link BodyRing.RingClass | RingClass} token. Matched
+ * case-insensitively on the material in the name, so both of the game's metallic
+ * spellings — `"eRingClass_MetalRich"` and the misspelt `"eRingClass_Metalic"` — resolve.
+ * @returns The assumed particle density in kg/m³: 4500 metallic, 3000 rocky, 1000 icy.
+ * An unrecognised class falls back to the icy figure, which is the game's commonest ring
+ * and its least dense — so a Roche limit computed from it is the conservative one.
+ * @throws {TypeError} If `ringClass` is not a string. This returns a density rather than
+ * reporting whether a class is known, so there is no miss for a nullish one to be.
+ * @example
+ * ```ts
+ * import { ringParticleDensity } from '@elite-dangerous-almanac/core/astro/body-rings';
+ *
+ * ringParticleDensity('eRingClass_Rocky'); // -> 3000
+ * ringParticleDensity('eRingClass_Metalic'); // -> 4500
+ * ringParticleDensity('eRingClass_Something_New'); // -> 1000
+ * ```
+ */
+declare function ringParticleDensity(ringClass: string): number;
+/**
+ * How thinly a ring's mass is spread over the annulus it occupies, in **megatonnes per
+ * square kilometre**.
+ *
+ * @remarks
+ * `MassMT / π(r_outer² − r_inner²)`, with the radii converted to kilometres.
+ *
+ * **The unit is the journal's, deliberately.** Frontier's `MassMT` is not the SI megatonne
+ * of 10⁹ kg: the Canonn physics that calibrated the threshold below treats it as 10¹² kg,
+ * a teragram, because that is what makes ring densities and Roche limits agree with what
+ * the game shows. That is an interpretation of an undocumented field rather than a
+ * published fact, so this reports the ratio in the units the scan supplied and leaves the
+ * conversion to a caller who wants one.
+ *
+ * @param ring - The ring. Needs {@link BodyRing.MassMT | MassMT},
+ * {@link BodyRing.InnerRad | InnerRad} and {@link BodyRing.OuterRad | OuterRad}.
+ * @returns Surface density in Mt/km², or `null` when a radius is missing or the outer
+ * radius does not exceed the inner one, leaving no area to spread the mass over.
+ * @throws {TypeError} If `ring` is not an object.
+ * @example
+ * ```ts
+ * import { ringSurfaceDensity } from '@elite-dangerous-almanac/core/astro/body-rings';
+ *
+ * // 1e13 Mt spread between 1e8 m and 2e8 m: an annulus of 3π × 10⁴ km².
+ * const ring = { Name: 'A Ring', RingClass: 'eRingClass_Icy', MassMT: 1e13, InnerRad: 1e8, OuterRad: 2e8 };
+ * ringSurfaceDensity(ring); // -> 106.1…
+ * ```
+ */
+declare function ringSurfaceDensity(ring: BodyRing): number | null;
+/**
+ * Whether the game leaves a ring undrawn — present in the scan, invisible in the sky.
+ *
+ * @remarks
+ * A ring both very wide and very diffuse has nothing to catch the light, and the game
+ * renders nothing where the scan says a ring is. The test is Canonn's, and it is an
+ * observational heuristic rather than a rule read out of the game: wider than
+ * {@link VISIBLE_RING_MAX_WIDTH} **and** thinner than
+ * {@link VISIBLE_RING_MIN_SURFACE_DENSITY}. Either one alone still draws.
+ *
+ * @param ring - The ring. Needs the fields {@link ringSurfaceDensity} needs.
+ * @returns `true` when the ring meets both conditions. A ring whose density cannot be
+ * computed is reported as visible, because there is no evidence it is not.
+ * @throws {TypeError} If `ring` is not an object.
+ * @example
+ * ```ts
+ * import { isInvisibleRing } from '@elite-dangerous-almanac/core/astro/body-rings';
+ *
+ * // Two million km wide and next to no mass in it.
+ * const faint = { Name: 'A Ring', RingClass: 'eRingClass_Icy', MassMT: 1e6, InnerRad: 1e9, OuterRad: 3e9 };
+ * isInvisibleRing(faint); // -> true
+ *
+ * // The same mass packed into a narrow ring is drawn.
+ * const narrow = { Name: 'A Ring', RingClass: 'eRingClass_Icy', MassMT: 1e6, InnerRad: 1e9, OuterRad: 1.1e9 };
+ * isInvisibleRing(narrow); // -> false
+ * ```
+ */
+declare function isInvisibleRing(ring: BodyRing): boolean;
+/**
+ * The period a ring turns in and the speed of each of its edges.
+ *
+ * @remarks
+ * **The game turns a ring as one rigid sheet.** A real ring shears — every particle on its
+ * own Kepler orbit, the inner edge fastest. Elite Dangerous gives the whole ring a single
+ * period instead, so the outer edge is the fast one, which is the opposite of the physical
+ * answer and the reason this cannot be computed edge by edge.
+ *
+ * That single period is recovered by applying Kepler's third law at a *nominal radius*
+ * some way across the ring:
+ *
+ * ```text
+ * nominal = inner + (outer − inner) × 3/8
+ * T = 2π √(nominal³ / GM)
+ * ```
+ *
+ * The `3/8` is a fitted constant, not a derivation — the Canonn Research Group arrived at
+ * it from in-game measurements, having also weighed `1/e` (≈ 0.368) and `1/φ²` (≈ 0.382),
+ * which it sits between. Two things bound how exact the result can be: the journal writes
+ * ring radii to four significant figures, and the fit is still being refined against new
+ * observations. Treat the figures as close, not exact.
+ *
+ * @param ring - The ring. Needs {@link BodyRing.InnerRad | InnerRad} and
+ * {@link BodyRing.OuterRad | OuterRad}, in metres.
+ * @param primary - The body the ring goes round. Needs a mass — see `bodyMass` in
+ * `./body-physics`.
+ * @returns The period in seconds, the nominal radius in metres and both edge speeds in
+ * m/s, or `null` when a radius or the primary's mass is missing, or the outer radius does
+ * not exceed the inner one.
+ * @throws {TypeError} If either argument is not an object.
+ * @example
+ * ```ts
+ * import { ringDynamics } from '@elite-dangerous-almanac/core/astro/body-rings';
+ *
+ * const ring = { Name: 'A Ring', RingClass: 'eRingClass_Icy', MassMT: 1e13, InnerRad: 1e8, OuterRad: 2e8 };
+ * const dynamics = ringDynamics(ring, { MassEM: 300 });
+ *
+ * dynamics?.orbitalPeriod; // -> 29296.1…
+ *
+ * // The outer edge outruns the inner one: rigid rotation, not Keplerian shear.
+ * (dynamics?.outerVelocity ?? 0) > (dynamics?.innerVelocity ?? 0); // -> true
+ * ```
+ */
+declare function ringDynamics(ring: BodyRing, primary: BodyProperties): RingDynamics | null;
+/**
+ * Roche limits around a body for material of the kind its ring is made of.
+ *
+ * @remarks
+ * Ring material inside the Roche limit could never have accreted into a moon, which is the
+ * usual account of why the ring is there at all. A ring sitting outside it wants a
+ * different explanation.
+ *
+ * The particle density is assumed from the ring's class ({@link ringParticleDensity})
+ * rather than measured, so the limits move with that assumption; the fluid limit is the
+ * one to compare a diffuse ring against.
+ *
+ * @param ring - The ring. Needs {@link BodyRing.RingClass | RingClass}.
+ * @param primary - The body it goes round. Needs a mass and a
+ * {@link BodyProperties.Radius | Radius}.
+ * @returns Both limits in metres from the primary's centre, or `null` when the primary's
+ * density cannot be computed.
+ * @throws {TypeError} If either argument is not an object, or the ring carries no
+ * `RingClass` string.
+ * @example
+ * ```ts
+ * import { ringRocheLimits } from '@elite-dangerous-almanac/core/astro/body-rings';
+ *
+ * const ring = { Name: 'A Ring', RingClass: 'eRingClass_Icy', MassMT: 1e13, InnerRad: 1e8, OuterRad: 2e8 };
+ * ringRocheLimits(ring, { MassEM: 1, Radius: 6_371_000 })?.fluid; // -> 27642167.3…
+ * ```
+ */
+declare function ringRocheLimits(ring: BodyRing, primary: BodyProperties): RocheLimits | null;
+
+export { RING_NOMINAL_RADIUS_FRACTION, type RingDynamics, VISIBLE_RING_MAX_WIDTH, VISIBLE_RING_MIN_SURFACE_DENSITY, isInvisibleRing, ringDynamics, ringParticleDensity, ringRocheLimits, ringSurfaceDensity };

package/dist/astro/body-rings.js

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+export{RING_NOMINAL_RADIUS_FRACTION,VISIBLE_RING_MAX_WIDTH,VISIBLE_RING_MIN_SURFACE_DENSITY,isInvisibleRing,ringDynamics,ringParticleDensity,ringRocheLimits,ringSurfaceDensity}from"../chunk-NEXDA73Y.js";                                                                                       //# sourceMappingURL=body-rings.js.map

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