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The motion of a point like object of mass $M$ passing through the background potential of massive collisionless particles ($m << M$) suffers a steady deceleration named dynamical friction. In his classical work, Chandrasekhar assumed a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 J. M. Silva , J. A. S. Lima , R. E. de Souza , A. Del Popolo , Morgan Le Delliou , Xi-Guo Lee

Binary systems can evolve into immensely different exotic systems such as blue straggle stars (BSSs), yellow straggler stars, cataclysmic variables, type Ia supernovae depending on their initial mass, the orbital parameters and evolution.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-11 Vikrant V. Jadhav

We study the hydrodynamical behavior occurring in the turbulent interaction zone of a fast moving red supergiant star, where the circumstellar and interstellar material collide. In this wind-interstellar medium collision, the familiar bow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-31 Allard Jan van Marle , Zakaria Meliani , Rony Keppens , Leen Decin

The evolution of young compact star clusters is studied using N-body simulations in which both stellar evolution and physical collisions between stars are taken into account. The initial conditions are chosen to represent R136, a compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Portegies Zwart , Junichiro Makino , Stephen L. W. McMillan , Piet Hut

Star-gas interactions can provide gravitational feedback that influences the dynamical evolution of stellar clusters, through processes such as dynamical friction (DF) and its non-dissipative counterpart, negative dynamical friction (NDF).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 Jixuan Yang , Lile Wang , Xinyu Li , Meng Sun , Long Wang , Rainer Spurzem

By using high-resolution spectra acquired with FLAMES-GIRAFFE at the ESO/VLT, we measured radial and rotational velocities of 115 stars in the Galactic globular cluster M55. After field decontamination based on the radial velocity values,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Alex Billi , Francesco R. Ferraro , Alessio Mucciarelli , Barbara Lanzoni , Mario Cadelano , Lorenzo Monaco

The detection of split main sequences (MSs) associated with young clusters ($\lesssim$600 Myr) has caught lots of attention. A prevailing scenario is that a bimodality of stellar rotation distribution drives the MS bifurcation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-01 Li Wang , Chengyuan Li , Long Wang , Chenyu He , Chen Wang

In this paper we address the issue of the origin of some observational properties of the galactic globular cluster system. After a preliminary study of some general properties of the main evolutionary processes, we investigate the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Vesperini

Diffusion of atoms can be important during quiescent phases of stellar evolution. Particularly in the very thin inert envelopes of subdwarf B stars, diffusive movements will considerably change the envelope structure and the surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Haili Hu , E. Glebbeek , A. A. Thoul , M. -A. Dupret , R. J. Stancliffe , G. Nelemans , C. Aerts

We present a study of the effects of collisional dynamics on the formation and detectability of cold tidal streams. A semi-analytical model for the evolution of the stellar mass function was implemented and coupled to a fast stellar stream…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-24 Eduardo Balbinot , Mark Gieles

We present and validate a novel semi-analytical approach to study the effect of dynamical friction on the orbits of massive perturbers in rotating stellar discs. We find that dynamical friction efficiently circularises the orbit of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-22 Matteo Bonetti , Elisa Bortolas , Alessandro Lupi , Massimo Dotti , Sandra I. Raimundo

We model hypothetical bio-dispersal within a single Galactic region using the stochastic infection dynamics process, which is inspired by these local properties of life dispersal on Earth. We split the population of stellar systems into…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Andjelka B. Kovacevic

We have studied the dynamical evolution of rotating star clusters with mass spectrum using a Fokker-Planck code. As a simplest multi-mass model, we first investigated the two-component clusters. Rotation is found to accelerate the dynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eunhyeuk Kim , Hyung Mok Lee , Rainer Spurzem

Stars in the Galactic disc, including the Solar system, have deviated from their birth orbits and have experienced radial mixing and vertical heating. By performing hydrodynamical simulations of a galactic disc, we investigate how much…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Yusuke Fujimoto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Junichi Baba

Binary stars are thought to be a controlling factor in globular cluster evolution, since they can heat the environmental stars by converting their binding energy to kinetic energy during dynamical interactions. Through such interaction, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-04-29 Jun Ji , Joel N. Bregman

We explore the dynamics of a tracer in an active particle harmonic chain, investigating the influence of interactions. Our analysis involves calculating mean-squared displacements (MSD) and space-time correlations through Green's function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Subhajit Paul , Abhishek Dhar , Debasish Chaudhuri

In this paper, a grid of the binary evolution models are calculated for the study of blue straggler (BS) population in intermediate age ($\log Age$=7.85-8.95) star clusters. The BS formation via mass transfer and merging is studied…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pin Lu , Li-Cai Deng , Xiao-Bin Zhang

We present a multi-passband photometric study of the Blue Straggler Star (BSS) population in the Galactic globular cluster (GC) NGC\,1261, using available space- and ground-based survey data.~The inner BSS population is found to have two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mirko Simunovic , Thomas H. Puzia , Alison Sills

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

We investigate the evolution of young star clusters using N-body simulations. We confirm that subvirial and fractal-structured clusters will dynamically mass segregate on a short timescale (within 0.5 Myr). We adopt a modified…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Jincheng Yu , Richard de Grijs , Li Chen