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We investigate the properties of globular clusters in a galaxy cluster, using the particle tagging method with a semi-analytical approach in a cosmological context. We assume globular clusters form from dark matter halo mergers and their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 So-Myoung Park , Jihye Shin , Rory Smith , Kyungwon Chun

We have carried out a large set of N-body simulations studying the effect of residual-gas expulsion on the survival rate and final properties of star clusters. We have varied the star formation efficiency, gas expulsion timescale and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Holger Baumgardt , Pavel Kroupa

We present a method to couple N-body star cluster simulations to a cosmological tidal field, using the Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment. We apply this method to star clusters embedded in the CosmoGrid dark matter-only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-05 Steven Rieder , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Paul Langelaan , Junichiro Makino , Stephen L. W. McMillan , Simon Portegies Zwart

(Abridged) Interacting galaxies are well-known for their high star formation rates and rich star cluster populations, but the rapidly changing tidal field can also efficiently destroy clusters. We use numerical simulations of merging disc…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , F. Inti Pelupessy , Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers , Simon F. Portegies Zwart , Nate Bastian , Vincent Icke

We present an end-to-end description of the formation process of globular clusters (GCs) which combines a treatment for their formation and dynamical evolution within galaxy haloes with a state-of-the-art semi-analytic simulation of galaxy…

Dense stellar clusters are natural sites for the origin and evolution of exotic objects such as relativistic binaries (potential gravitational wave sources), blue stragglers, etc. We investigate the secular dynamics of a binary system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Chris Hamilton , Roman R. Rafikov

Globular clusters (GCs) host multiple stellar populations differing in their chemical and dynamical properties. A number of models for the formation of multiple populations predict that the subsystem of second generation (SG) stars is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 Ethan B. White , Enrico Vesperini , Emanuele Dalessandro , Anna Lisa Varri

Tidal structures around globular clusters provide valuable insights into cluster evolution and the hierarchical assembly of the Milky Way. Using wide-field imaging data from the DESI Legacy Survey combined with a color-magnitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-24 Shouzhi Wang , Jundan Nie , Biwei Jiang , Hao Tian , Chao Liu , Ying-Hua Zhang

The present-day globular cluster populations of galaxies reflect the cumulative effects of billions of years of galaxy evolution via such processes as mergers, tidal stripping, accretion, and in some cases the partial or even complete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael J. West

We investigate evolution of star clusters in external tidal field by means of $N$-body simulations. We followed seven sets of cluster models whose central concentration and strength of the tidal field are different. We found that the mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ataru Tanikawa , Toshiyuki Fukushige

In order to explore how the early internal rotational properties of star clusters are affected by the external potential of their host galaxies, we have run a suite of $N$-body simulations following the early dynamical evolution and violent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Maria Tiongco , Enrico Vesperini , Anna Lisa Varri

The planets with a radius $<$ 4 $R$$_\oplus$ observed by the Kepler mission exhibit a unique feature, and propose a challenge for current planetary formation models. The tidal effect between a planet and its host star plays an essential…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-15 Yao Dong , Jianghui Ji , Su Wang

Orbital evolution of binary systems in dense stellar clusters is important in a variety of contexts: origin of blue stragglers, progenitors of compact object mergers, millisecond pulsars, and so on. Here we consider the general problem of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-19 Chris Hamilton , Roman R. Rafikov

The basic properties of the candidate binary cluster population in the Magellanic Clouds and Galaxy are similar. The fraction of candidate binary systems is $\sim$10% and the pair separation histogram exhibits a bimodal distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-05-28 Raúl de la Fuente Marcos , Carlos de la Fuente Marcos

We investigate the ratio between the half-mass radii r_h of Galactic globular clusters and their Jacobi radii r_J given by the potential of the Milky Way and show that clusters with galactocentric distances R_{GC}>8 kpc fall into two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Holger Baumgardt , Genevieve Parmentier , Mark Gieles , Enrico Vesperini

We study the evolution of binary stars in globular clusters using a new Monte Carlo approach combining a population synthesis code (StarTrack), and a simple treatment of dynamical interactions in the dense cluster core using a new tool for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Ivanova , K. Belczynski , J. M. Fregeau , F. A. Rasio

Globular clusters are stellar dynamical systems which evolve on stellar evolutionary and both internal and external dynamical timescales. Quantitative comparison of cluster properties with realistic evolutionary dynamical models is becoming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerard Gilmore

Young stellar clusters across nearly five orders of magnitude in mass appear to follow a power-law mass-radius relationship (MRR), $R_{\star} \propto M_{\star}^{\alpha}$, with $\alpha \approx 0.2 - 0.33$. We develop a simple analytic model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-04 Nick Choksi , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

The dynamical evolution of the globular cluster systems in galaxies is predicted, based on the standard dynamical theory normalized to the example of the Milky Way. The major processes varying with the galactocentric distance are the tidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Observations and theory both suggest that star clusters form sub-virial (cool) with highly sub-structured distributions. We perform a large ensemble of N-body simulations of moderate-sized (N=1000) cool, fractal clusters to investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Richard J. Allison , Simon P. Goodwin , Richard J. Parker , Simon F. Portegies Zwart , Richard de Grijs