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Binary populations in young star clusters show multiplicity fractions both lower and up to twice as high as those observed in the Galactic field. We follow the evolution of a population of binary stars in dense and loose star clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Michael Marks , Pavel Kroupa

We use a self-consistent Monte Carlo treatment of stellar dynamics to investigate black hole binaries that are dynamically ejected from globular clusters to determine if they will be gravitational wave sources. We find that many of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 J. M. B. Downing , M. J. Benacquista , M. Giersz , R. Spurzem

The total mass of a distant star cluster is often derived from the virial theorem, using line-of-sight velocity dispersion measurements and half-light radii, under the implicit assumption that all stars are single (although it is known that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , R. de Grijs

We use N-body integration to follow the evolution of clusters of 200 binary systems with different initial half mass radii $R_{0.5}$. We also simulate single-star clusters. All clusters evolve according to the same $n(t)$ curve, where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Pavel Kroupa

In dense environments like globular clusters (GCs), dynamical interactions can disrupt or harden close binaries, nonetheless, detailed comparisons with field binary fractions remain limited. Here, we present an analysis of the close binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Dolev Bashi , Vasily Belokurov

Most of massive stars form in binary or higher-order systems in clumpy, sub-structured clusters. In the very first phases of their life, these stars are expected to interact with the surrounding environment, before being released to the…

We investigate the dynamical formation and evolution of binaries containing neutron stars in dense globular clusters. Our numerical simulations combine a simple Monte Carlo prescription for stellar dynamics, a sophisticated binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Natalia Ivanova , John M. Fregeau , Frederic A. Rasio

We have investigated the effect of the number of primordial binaries on the relationship between the total number of detected binaries within globular cluster and its collision rate. We have used simulated populations of binary stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Gendre

The discovery of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters has implications for all the aspects of the study of these stellar systems. In this paper, by means of N-body simulations, we study the evolution of binary stars in…

We use high-resolution {\sl Hubble Space Telescope} imaging observations of the young ($\sim 15-25$ Myr-old) star cluster NGC 1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud to derive an estimate for the binary fraction of F stars ($1.3 <…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-09 Yi Hu , Licai Deng , Richard deGrijs , Simon P. Goodwin , Qiang Liu

To study the evolution of binary star clusters we have imaged 7 systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud with SOAR 4-m telescope using B and V filters. The sample contains pairs with well-separated components (d < 30 pc) as well as systems…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. F. C. Santos , A. A. Schmidt , E. Bica

We model the dynamics of test binaries in isotropic, multi-mass models of galactic globular clusters. The evolution of binary orbits through the cluster potentials is modeled, including second order diffusion terms, and probabilities for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steinn Sigurdsson , E. S. Phinney

Almost all globular clusters (GCs) contain multiple populations consisting of stars with varying helium and light-element abundances. These populations include first-population stars, which exhibit similar chemical compositions to…

Recent works have identified that rapidly rotating stars are predominantly binaries with separations of a few to a few tenths of au. This is a crucial range of separation that is often inaccessible to searches of binary stars, providing a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Priyanka Cingirikonda , Marina Kounkel , Joseph Mullen

Upon their formation, dynamically cool (collapsing) star clusters will, within only a few million years, achieve stellar mass segregation for stars down to a few solar masses, simply because of gravitational two-body encounters. Since…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Richard de Grijs , Chengyuan Li , Yong Zheng , Licai Deng , Yi Hu , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , James E. Wicker

The frequency of low-mass pre-main sequence binary systems is significantly lower in the Trapezium Cluster than in Taurus-Auriga. We investigate if this difference can be explained through stellar encounters in dense clusters. To this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pavel Kroupa , Monika Petr , Mark McCaughrean

Models based on their binary origin have been very successful in reproducing the properties of field subdwarf-B stars, but the observations of their analogues in globular clusters has posed new problems, while the discovery of multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Moni Bidin , S. Villanova , G. Piotto , Y. Momany

We investigate properties of black hole (BH) binaries formed in globular clusters via dynamical processes, using direct N-body simulations. We pay attention to effects of BH mass function on the total mass and mass ratio distributions of BH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-12 Dawoo Park , Chunglee Kim , Hyung Mok Lee , Yeong-Bok Bae , Chris Belczynski

We present the first study of the dynamical evolution of an isolated star cluster that combines a significant population of primordial binaries with the presence of a central black hole. We use equal-mass direct N-body simulations, with N…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Trenti , E. Ardi , S. Mineshige , P. Hut

Performing N-body simulations, we examine the dynamics of BH-BH (10 Msun each) and NS-NS (1.4 Msun each) binaries formed in a cluster and its implications for gravitational wave detection. A significant fraction of compact binaries are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Yeong-Bok Bae , Chunglee Kim , Hyung Mok Lee