Abstract:
Stars, which form as members of a stellar cluster, probably experience stellar encounters that would escape stars in the stellar cluster and that would also perturb circumstellar dust disk. Therefore the viewpoint stated above are studied of the effects of stellar encounter parameters on the gravitationally perturbed circumstellar dust disk by using fifth-order Runge-Kutta method for solving motion equations with changing values of one stellar encounter parameter. After having studied stellar encounter parameters, we found changes in semimajor axis, orbital eccentricity and orbital inclination of dusty disk particles. These changes can be simulated with the dust disk of β Pictoris by giving the orbital eccentricity of a passing star to be 1, the orbital inclination of the passing star to be 30°, the argument of periastron to be 90°, the longitude of ascending node to be 0° and the passing stellar mass that is scaled by the mass of β Pictoris to be 0.3. Parameters given above can result in the formation of dust clumps that are similar to the photograph of north-east extended dust clumps. Additionally the lengths of north-east and south-west extensions from β Pictoris are measured out to be ~2,398 AU and ~1,317 AU respectively.