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Many open clusters have a deficit of observed white dwarfs (WDs) compared with predictions of the number of stars to have evolved into WDs. We evaluate the number of WDs produced in open clusters and the number of those WDS detectable using…

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We simulate a cluster of 144179 stars including 13107 primordial hard binaries (10% of the total number of single stars and binary centers of mass), using direct integration of the equations of motion of all stars and binaries and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Portegies Zwart , Steve McMillan

Binary stars produce an array of dramatic astrophysical phenomena. They allow us to probe stellar structure, nuclear physics, and gravitational wave physics. They also produce the powerful supernovae that allow us to measure the scale of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-20 Kaitlin M. Kratter

The vast majority of binary systems are disrupted at the moment of the first supernova, resulting in an unbound compact object and companion star. These ejected companion stars contribute to the observed population of runaway stars.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-03 Tom Wagg , David D. Hendriks , Mathieu Renzo , Katelyn Breivik

We apply probabilistic generative modelling of colour-magnitude diagrams to six young Galactic open star clusters and determine their mass functions, binary mass-ratio distributions, and the frequencies of binary stars. We find that younger…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-26 Jason Alexander , Michael Albrow

Observations of binaries in clusters tend to be of visual binaries with separations of 10s - 100s au. Such binaries are 'intermediates' and their destruction or survival depends on the exact details of their individual dynamical history. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Richard J. Parker , Simon P. Goodwin

Understanding the formation of wide binary systems of very low mass stars (M $\le$ 0.1 Msun) is challenging. The most obvious route is via widely separated low-mass collapsing fragments produced through turbulent fragmentation of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-04 Jeong-Eun Lee , Seokho Lee , Michael Dunham , Ken'ichi Tatematsu , Minho Choi , Edwin A. Bergin , Neal J. Evans

Gyrochronology enables the derivation of ages of late-type main sequence stars based on their rotation periods and a mass proxy, such as color. It has been explored in open clusters, but a connection to field stars has yet to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-21 David Gruner , Sydney A. Barnes , Kenneth A. Janes

In this work, we investigate the dynamical effects of a sequence of close encounters over 200 Myr varying in the interval of 10000 -- 100000 au between a binary star system and passing stars with masses ranging from 0.1$M_{\odot}$ to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 David Bancelin , Thomas Nordlander , Elke Pilat-Lohinger , Birgit Loibnegger

Stellar rotation is a fundamental ingredient in shaping the evolution of stars and it can also be used to trace past stellar interactions. Yet, systematic studies of stellar rotation in large samples of stars belonging to different…

The expected distributions of eclipse-depth versus period for eclipsing binaries of different luminosities are derived from large-scale population synthesis experiments. Using the rapid Hurley et al. BSE binary evolution code, we have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Soderhjelm , J. Dischler

Binary stars are predicted to have an important role in the evolution of globular clusters, so we obtained binary fractions for 35 globular clusters that were imaged in the F606W and F814W with the ACS on the Hubble Space Telescope. When…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-04 Jun Ji , Joel N. Bregman

Context: To investigate how the content of massive OB stars affects the long-term evolution of young open clusters and their tidal streams, and how such an effect influences the constraint of initial conditions by looking at the present-day…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Long Wang , Tereza Jerabkova

The binary fractions of open and globular clusters yield powerful constraints on their dynamical state and evolutionary history. We apply publicly available Bayesian analysis code to a $UBVRIJHK_{S}$ photometric catalog of the old open…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Roger E. Cohen , Aaron M. Geller , Ted von Hippel

The initial distribution of rotational velocities of stars is still poorly known, and how the stellar spin evolves from birth to the various end points of stellar evolution is an actively debated topic. Binary interactions are often invoked…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 N. Britavskiy , M. Renzo , Y. Nazé , G. Rauw , P. Vynatheya

Due to the different environments in the Milky Way's disk and halo, comparing wide binaries in the disk and halo is key to understanding wide binary formation and evolution. By using Gaia Early Data Release 3, we search for resolved wide…

(Abridged) The formation and evolution of star cluster populations are related to the galactic environment. Cluster formation is governed by processes acting on galactic scales, and star cluster disruption is driven by the tidal field. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , F. Inti Pelupessy , Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers , Simon F. Portegies Zwart , Vincent Icke

Dozens of planets and brown dwarfs are known to orbit one component of tight stellar binaries ($a_{\rm bin} \lesssim 20$ au), despite circumstellar discs in such systems being truncated to radii of only $\sim (0.2-5)$ au. This presents a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Luyao Zhang , Sergei Nayakshin , Clement Baruteau , Philippe Thebault , Eduard I. Vorobyov

In previous papers of this series, we developed a new algorithm for modeling the formation of star clusters in galaxy formation simulations. Here we investigate how dissolution of bound star clusters affects the shape of the cluster mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-21 Hui Li , Oleg Y. Gnedin

(abridged) In this paper, we constrain the properties of primordial binary populations in Galactic globular clusters using the MOCCA Monte Carlo code for cluster evolution. Our results are compared to the observations of Milone et al.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nathan W. C. Leigh , Mirek Giersz , Michael Marks , Jeremy J. Webb , Arkadiusz Hypki , Craig O. Heinke , Pavel Kroupa , Alison Sills