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Empirical constraints on the internal dynamics of open clusters are important for understanding their evolution and evaporation. High precision astrometry from Gaia DR3 are thus useful to observe aspects of the cluster dynamics. This work…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-03 Vikrant V. Jadhav , Pavel Kroupa , Wenjie Wu , Jan Pflamm-Altenburg , Ingo Thies

[abridged] We present a unified picture for the evolution of star clusters on the two-body relaxation timescale. We use direct N-body simulations of star clusters in a galactic tidal field starting from different multi-mass King models, up…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Michele Trenti , Enrico Vesperini , Mario Pasquato

We present the results of Monte Carlo simulations for the dynamical evolution of star clusters containing two stellar populations with individual masses m1 and m2 > m1, and total masses M1 and M2 < M1. We use both King and Plummer model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. A. Watters , K. J. Joshi , F. A. Rasio

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 use numerical $N$-body experiments to explore the statistics of multiple systems formed in small-$N$ subclusters, i.e. the distributions of orbital semi-major axis, $a$, orbital eccentricity, $e$, mass ratio, $q$, mutual orbital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-28 Hannah Ambrose , Anthony Whitworth

The majority of discovered exoplanets have been observed orbiting field stars as opposed to within a star cluster. To determine whether the lack of observed exoplanets in star clusters is due to gravitational perturbations or observational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Jeremy J. Webb , Milica Ivetic , Maxwell X. Cai , Simon Portegies Zwart , Daniella Morrone

The formation of galaxy clusters in hierarchically clustering universes is investigated by means of high resolution N-body simulations. The simulations are performed using a newly developed multi-mass scheme which combines a PM code with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Huss , B. Jain , M. Steinmetz

[abridged] We extend our analysis of the dynamical evolution of simple star cluster models, in order to provide comparison standards that will aid in interpreting the results of more complex realistic simulations. We augment our previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Trenti , D. C. Heggie , P. Hut

Fragmentation and fission of giant molecular clouds occasionally results in a pair of gravitationally bound star clusters that orbit their mutual centre of mass for some time, under the influence of internal and external perturbations. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 R. Priyatikanto , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , M. I. Arifyanto , H. R. T. Wulandari , S. Siregar

More and more observations indicate that young star clusters could retain imprints of their formation process. In particular, the degree of substructuring and rotation are possibly the direct result of the collapse of the parent molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Alessandro Ballone , Michela Mapelli , Ugo N. Di Carlo , Stefano Torniamenti , Mario Spera , Sara Rastello

We have performed N-body simulations of tidally filling star clusters with a range of orbits in a Milky Way-like potential to study the effects of orbital inclination and eccentricity on their structure and evolution. At small…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jeremy J. Webb , Alison Sills , William E. Harris , Jarrod R. Hurley

We analyze with hydrodynamical simulations the evolution of galaxy clusters in a cosmological environment. Power ratios (Buote \& Tsai 1995) are used to quantitatively relate cluster morphologies to their dynamical states. The simulated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 John C. Tsai , David A. Buote

We use N-body simulations to study evolution of galaxy clusters over the redshift interval 0 <= z <= 0.5 in cosmological models with a mixture of cold and hot dark matter (CHDM). Four different techniques are utilized: the cluster-cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Charles Walter , Anatoly Klypin

We study the first 100Myr of the evolution of isolated star clusters initially containing 144179 stars, including 13107 (10%) primordial hard binaries. Our calculations include the effects of both stellar and binary evolution. Gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Simon Portegies Zwart , Steve McMillan , Jun Makino

We introduce the star cluster evolution code Evolve Me A Cluster of StarS (EMACSS), a simple yet physically motivated computational model that describes the evolution of some fundamental properties of star clusters in static tidal fields.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Poul E. R. Alexander , Mark Gieles

We present a new version of the fast star cluster evolution code Evolve Me A Cluster of StarS (EMACSS). While previous versions of EMACSS reproduced clusters of single-mass stars, this version models clusters with an evolving stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Poul Alexander , Mark Gieles , Henny Lamers , Holger Baumgardt

We present a new computation of the linear tidal interaction of a protoplanetary core with a thin gaseous disc in which it is fully embedded. For the first time a discussion of the orbital evolution of cores with eccentricity (e)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. B. Papaloizou , J. D. Larwood

We present the results of a detailed kinematic analysis of a significant fraction of the known population of Galactic star clusters aimed at constraining the physical mechanisms driving the onset and evolution of cluster rotation. Our study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-20 E. Dalessandro , A. Della Croce , E. Vesperini , M. Cadelano , S. Leanza , G. Ettorre , M. Hughes

The time evolution of galaxy cluster abundance is used to constrain cosmological parameters in dark matter models containing a fraction of hot particles (massive neutrino). We test the modified MDM models with cosmic gravitational waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. A. Arkhipova , T. Kahniashvili , V. N. Lukash

We present the results of a set of N-body simulations following the long-term evolution of the rotational properties of star cluster models evolving in the external tidal field of their host galaxy, after an initial phase of violent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Maria A. Tiongco , Enrico Vesperini , Anna Lisa Varri