Finite halo particle number

If particle budget of components is set according to their luminosity contribution, N_halo~0.01 N_total. This gives very few/sparse halo particles.

Erik thinks this is the reason col spread due to halo particles is insignificant. In fact, as long as we have a halo with FINITE particles, this would be the case. However, "the problem with having a finite number of halo/bulge particles has no impact on how long a particular morphological anomaly persists after colonization has been stopped, just how long it takes to "spread the disease" throughout the entire galaxy during the colonization stage. Hence, your analysis should still be OK for the "stalling colonization" case. "

I only agree with that in cases where we have an active colonizing front (currently only in the P2P strategy). In case of an inactive colonization front, even if a halo particle happens to get infected, it is unable to spread the disease into the other regions of the galaxy.

Test-run all (2X2) strategies with varying N_halo

asadisaghar / SETI

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