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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…

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Context: Globular clusters (GCs) host multiple populations characterised by abundance variations in a number of light elements. In many cases, these populations also show spatial and/or kinematic differences, which vary in strength from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Francisco I. Aros , Enrico Vesperini , Emanuele Dalessandro

Recent observations of young embedded clumpy clusters and statistical identifications of binary star clusters have provided new insights into the formation process and subsequent dynamical evolution of star clusters. The early dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-08 R. Darma , M. I. Arifyanto , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven

In order to interpret the results of complex realistic star cluster simulations, which rely on many simplifying approximations and assumptions, it is essential to study the behavior of even more idealized models, which can highlight the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. C. Heggie , M. Trenti , P. Hut

Several scenarios have been proposed to explain the presence of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters. Many of them invoke multiple generations of stars to explain the observed chemical abundance anomalies, but it has also been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Vincent Hénault-Brunet , Mark Gieles , Oscar Agertz , Justin I. Read

We report results of a large set of N-body calculations aimed to study the evolution of multi-mass star clusters in external tidal fields. Our clusters start with the same initial mass-functions, but varying particle numbers, orbital types…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Holger Baumgardt , Junichiro Makino

Populations of massive stars are directly reflective of the physics of stellar evolution. Counting subtypes of massive stars and ratios of massive stars in different evolutionary states have been used ubiquitously as diagnostics of age and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Trevor Z. Dorn-Wallenstein , Emily M. Levesque

The evolution of AGB stars is notoriously complex. The confrontation of AGB population models with observed stellar populations is a useful alternative to the detailed study of individual stars in efforts to converge towards a reliable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-11-23 Ariane Lançon

We study the evolution of embedded clusters. The equations of motion of the stars in the cluster are solved by direct N-body integration while taking the effects of stellar evolution and the hydrodynamics of the natal gas content into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. I. Pelupessy , S. Portegies Zwart

The dynamical evolution of globular clusters (GCs) is tied to their binary population, as binaries segregate to the cluster centre, leading to an increased binary fraction in the core. This central overabundance of mainly hard binaries can…

The globular cluster population in M87 has decreased measurably through dynamical evolution caused by relaxation, binary heating and time-dependent tidal perturbation. For fundamental plane ellipticals in general, cluster populations evolve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. Murali , M. D. Weinberg

The observable characteristics and subsequent evolution of young stellar populations is dominated by their massive stars. As our understanding of those massive stars and the factors affecting their evolution improves, so our interpretation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-28 Jan J. Eldridge , Elizabeth R. Stanway

By means of 3D hydrodynamic simulations, we explore the effects of rotation in the formation of second-generation (SG) stars in globular clusters (GC). Our simulations follow the SG formation in a first-generation (FG) internally rotating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-13 Elena Lacchin , Francesco Calura , Enrico Vesperini , Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti

This paper studies the dynamical evolution of young stellar clusters with $N$ = 100 - 1000 members. We use N-body simulations to explore how evolution depends on system size $N$ and the initial conditions. Motivated by recent observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fred C. Adams , Eva M. Proszkow , Marco Fatuzzo , Philip C. Myers

We investigate the long-term dynamical evolution of the internal kinematics of multimass rotating star clusters. We have performed a set of N-body simulations to follow the internal evolution of clusters with different degrees of initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Alexander R. Livernois , Enrico Vesperini , Anna Lisa Varri , Jongsuk Hong , Maria Tiongco

Recent stellar evolution models for globular clusters (GCs) in multiple population paradigm suggest that horizontal-branch (HB) morphology and mean period of type ab RR Lyrae variables are mostly determined by He & CNO abundances and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Sohee Jang , Jenny J. Kim , Young-Wook Lee

Studying the internal dynamics of stellar clusters is conducted primarily through N-Body simulations. One of the major inputs into N-Body simulations is the binary star frequency and mass distribution, which is currently constrained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-17 Peter Frinchaboy , Benjamin Thompson

Red giants are increasingly used as stellar population tracers due to their well-understood evolution and the availability of asteroseismic observables. However, stellar binarity can alter observable properties and introduce strong biases.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Paul G. Beck

Most stars, binaries, and higher multiplicity systems are thought to form in stellar clusters and associations, which later dissociate. Very wide binaries can be easily disrupted in clusters due to dynamical evaporation (soft binaries)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-29 Mor Rozner , Hagai B. Perets

In this paper, the second of a series, we study the stellar dynamical and evolutionary processes leading to the formation of compact binaries containing neutron stars (NSs) in dense globular clusters (GCs). For this study, 70 dense clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Ivanova , C. Heinke , F. A. Rasio , K. Belczynski , J. Fregeau