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Wide, fragile binary stellar systems are found in the galactic field, and have recently been noted in the outskirts of expanding star clusters in numerical simulations. Energetically soft, with semi-major axes exceeding the initial size of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Nickolas Moeckel , Cathie J. Clarke

This chapter reviews the dynamical processes in young stellar clusters. The accretion of gas by individual stars affects the dynamics of the cluster, and the masses of the stars. Dynamical mass segregation cannot explain the degree of mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ian Bonnell , Pavel Kroupa

Recent studies of Galactic evolution revealed that the dynamics of the stellar component might be one of the key factors when considering galactic habitability. We run an N-body simulation model of the Milky Way, which we evolve for 10 Gyr,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-26 A. Mitrašinović , B. Vukotić , M. Micic , M. M. Ćirković

We present a suite of direct N-body simulations of low mass ($<10^4~M_{\odot}$) globular cluster streams initialized with observationally-motivated binary demographics in order to understand the effect of in-cluster dynamical processing on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 Anya Phillips , Charlie Conroy , Jacob Nibauer , Long Wang , Vedant Chandra , Ana Bonaca , Jay Strader , Morgan MacLeod

The classic question that how young massive star clusters attain their shapes and sizes, as we find them today, remains to be a challenge. Both observational and computational studies of star-forming massive molecular gas clouds infer that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Sambaran Banerjee , Pavel Kroupa

We present new fully self-consistent models of the formation and evolution of isolated dwarf galaxies. We have used the publicly available N-body/SPH code HYDRA, to which we have added a set of star formation criteria, and prescriptions for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sander Valcke , S. De Rijcke , H. Dejonghe

The galactic population of globular clusters are old, dense star systems, with a typical cluster containing $10^4 - 10^6$ stars. As an old population of stars, globular clusters contain many collapsed and degenerate objects. As a dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Matthew Benacquista

Two-body relaxation times of nuclear star clusters are short enough that gravitational encounters should substantially affect their structure in 10 Gyr or less. In nuclear star clusters without massive black holes, dynamical evolution is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 David Merritt

We study the dynamical evolution of disk and halo globular clusters in the Milky Way using a series of Fokker-Planck calculations combined with parametric statistical models. Our sample of 113 clusters with velocity data is predicted to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chigurupati Murali , Martin D. Weinberg

The fragmentation of filaments in molecular clouds has attracted a lot of attention as there seems to be a relation between the evolution of filaments and star formation. The study of the fragmentation process has been motivated by simple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-07 R. -A. Chira , J. Kainulainen , J. C. Ibàñez-Mejía , Th. Henning , M. -M. Mac Low

We review recent progress in the description of the formation and evolution of galaxy clusters in a cosmological context by using numerical simulations. We focus our presentation on the comparison between simulated and observed X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Stefano Borgani , Andrey Kravtsov

Tidal interactions in close binaries play a key role in the long-term rotational and orbital evolution. The distributions of circularization across open clusters (OCs) place strong observational constraints on tidal dissipation in binaries.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Li Wang , Chenyu He , Chengyuan Li , Gang Li

Young massive clusters are as young as open clusters but more massive and compact compared with typical open clusters. The formation process of young massive clusters is still unclear, and it is an open question whether the formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Michiko S. Fujii

Classical Cepheid variable stars provide a unique probe to binary evolution in intermediate-mass stars over the course of several tens to hundreds of Myr. We studied the binary and multiple properties of Cepheids, assuming that all mid-B…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-23 František Dinnbier , Richard I. Anderson , Pavel Kroupa

Evolutions of X-ray clusters of galaxies are studied by N-body (shell model) + mesh code (TVD) simulations on the assumption of spherical symmetry. We consider a density perturbation of $10^{15} M_{\odot}$ composed of dark matter and gas in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Motokazu Takizawa , Shin Mineshige

Direct N-body calculations are presented of the early evolution of exposed clusters to quantify the influence of gas expulsion on the time-varying surface brightness. By assuming that the embedded OB stars drive out most of the gas after a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Lueghausen , G. Parmentier , J. Pflamm-Altenburg , P. Kroupa

The mass evaporation rate of globular clusters evolving in a strong Galactic tidal field is derived through the analysis of large, multi-mass $N$-body simulations. For comparison, we also study the same evaporation rates using MOCCA Monte…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Juan P. Madrid , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Jarrod R. Hurley , Mirek Giersz

The presence of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters leads to a complex dynamical environment that significantly influences the evolution of binary stars, which in turn impacts the evolution of the cluster itself. For this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 J. Bruce , E. Vesperini , A. Askar , E. Bortolan , M. Giersz , J. Hong , A. Hypki , A. P. Milone

We consider models of gas flow in spiral galaxies in which the spiral structure has been excited by various possible mechanisms: a global steady density wave, self-gravity of the stellar disc and an external tidal interaction, as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 C. L. Dobbs , J. E. Pringle

We present the first results of the \textsc{Dragon-II} simulations, a suite of 19 $N$-body simulations of star clusters with up to $10^6$ stars, with up to $33\%$ of them initially paired in binaries. In this work, we describe the main…