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Globular clusters (GCs), as old as our Galaxy, constantly lose their members to the field as they cross through the Milky Way (MW). These GC escaped stars (or escapees) are suggested to contribute significantly to the MW halo. If a star has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-14 Cheng Xu , Baitian Tang , Chengyuan Li , José G. Fernández-Trincado , Jing Zhong , Long Wang , Hao Tian , Yang Huang

We apply for the first time the Monte Carlo star cluster modeling method to study tidal tail and stellar stream formation from globular clusters, assuming a circular orbit in a smooth Galactic potential. Approximating energetically unbound…

The dense cores of Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) play host to a variety of dynamical encounters between stellar objects, which can accelerate stars to velocities high enough to escape the GC. The most extreme examples of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-23 Fraser A. Evans , Steffani M. Grondin , Claire S. Ye , Jeremy Webb , Alexander Laroche , Jo Bovy

The dense environments in the cores of globular clusters (GCs) facilitate many strong dynamical encounters among stellar objects. These encounters have been shown capable of ejecting stars from the host GC, whereupon they become runaway…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-16 Tomás Cabrera , Carl L. Rodriguez

A significant proportion of Milky Way stars are born in stellar clusters, which dissolve over time so that the members become part of the disc and halo populations of the Galaxy. In the present work we will assume that these young stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-08 G. R. I. Moyano Loyola , J. R. Hurley

The aim of this work is to explore the escape process of three-dimensional orbits in a star cluster rotating around its parent galaxy in a circular orbit. The gravitational field of the cluster is represented by a smooth, spherically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

We have carried out a large grid of N-body simulations in order to investigate if mass-loss as a result of primordial gas expulsion can be responsible for the large fraction of second generation stars in globular clusters (GCs) with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-14 Pouria Khalaj , Holger Baumgardt

Globular clusters (GCs) are evolved stellar systems containing entire populations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which are efficient gamma-ray emitters. Observations of this emission can be used as a powerful tool to explore the dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Raniere de Menezes , Fabio Cafardo , Rodrigo Nemmen

Globular clusters (GCs), the oldest stellar systems observed in the Milky Way, have for long been considered single stellar populations. As such, they provided an ideal laboratory to understand stellar dynamics and primordial star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-06 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Sergey Khoperskov , Paola Di Matteo , Misha Haywood

Globular clusters (GCs) are old massive star clusters that serve as `fossils' of galaxy formation. The advent of Gaia observatory has enabled detailed kinematics studies of the Galactic GCs and revolutionized our understanding of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-12 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Our current understanding of the stellar initial mass function and massive star evolution suggests that young globular clusters may have formed hundreds to thousands of stellar-mass black holes, the remnants of stars with initial masses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Meagan Morscher , Bharath Pattabiraman , Carl Rodriguez , Frederic A. Rasio , Stefan Umbreit

Globular clusters (GCs) are known to host multiple stellar populations showing chemical anomalies in the content of light elements. The origin of such anomalies observed in Galactic GCs is still debated. Here we analyse data compiled from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Hagai B. Perets

We consider both observational and theoretical issues related to dynamical mass loss from the old globular star clusters of the Galaxy. On the observational side the evidence includes tidal tails and extratidal extensions, kinematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas C. Heggie

Gaia observations have revealed over a million stellar binary candidates within ~1 kpc of the Sun, predominantly characterized by orbital separations >10^3 AU and eccentricities >0.7. The prevalence of such wide, eccentric binaries has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-12 Dany Atallah , Yonadav Barry Ginat , Newlin C. Weatherford

We employ hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the underlying mechanism responsible for the low levels of gas and dust in globular clusters. Our models examine the competing effects of energy and mass supply from the various components…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-17 J. Naiman , M. Soares-Furtado , E. Ramirez-Ruiz

An increasing number of observations of the outer regions of globular clusters (GCs) have shown a flattening of the velocity dispersion profile and an extended surface density profile. Formation scenarios of GCs can lead to different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-15 Ian Claydon , Mark Gieles , Anna Lisa Varri , Douglas C. Heggie , Alice Zocchi

The outskirts of globular clusters (GCs) simultaneously retain crucial information about their formation mechanism and the properties of their host galaxy. Thanks to the advent of precision astrometry both their morphological and kinematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 P. Bianchini , R. Ibata , B. Famaey

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

We report results on the kinematics of Milky Way (MW) globular clusters (GCs) based on updated space velocities for nearly the entire GC population. We found that a 3D space with the semi-major axis, the eccentricity and the inclination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-11 Andrés E. Piatti

(Abridged) Using luminosities and structural parameters of globular clusters (GCs) in the nuclear regions (nGCs) of low-mass dwarf galaxies from HST/ACS imaging we derive the present-day escape velocities (v_esc) of stellar ejecta to reach…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Iskren Y. Georgiev , Michael Hilker , Thomas H. Puzia , Paul Goudfrooij , Holger Baumgardt
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