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The presence of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters leads to a complex dynamical environment that significantly influences the evolution of binary stars, which in turn impacts the evolution of the cluster itself. For this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 J. Bruce , E. Vesperini , A. Askar , E. Bortolan , M. Giersz , J. Hong , A. Hypki , A. P. Milone

It is well-known that some star clusters contain composite stellar populations (CSPs), in which the metallicities or (and) ages of stars are different. The formation and evolution of such clusters and their stellar populations remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-11 Zhongmu Li , Rainer Spurzem

Most stars in galactic disks are believed to be born as a member of star clusters or associations. Star clusters formed in disks are disrupted due to the tidal stripping and the evolution of star clusters themselves, and as a results new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 M. S. Fujii , J. Baba

We study the evolution of globular clusters with mass spectra under the influence of the steady Galactic tidal field, including the effects of velocity anisotropy. Similar to single-mass models, velocity anisotropy develops as the cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Takahashi , H. M. Lee

We study the effect of the instantaneous gas expulsion on star clusters wherein the residual gas has a density profile shallower than that of the embedded cluster. This is expected if star formation proceeds with a given SFE per free-fall…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev , Genevieve Parmentier , Peter Berczik , Andreas Just

We describe Monte Carlo models for the dynamical evolution of the nearby globular cluster NGC 6397. The code includes treatments of two-body relaxation, most kinds of three- and four-body interactions involving primordial binaries and those…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Giersz , D. C. Heggie

The dynamical evolution of globular clusters is theoretically described by a series of well known events typical of N-body systems. Still, the identification of observational signatures able to empirically describe the stage of dynamical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Giacomo Beccari , Mario Cadelano , Emanuele Dalessandro

It is well known that numerical errors grow exponentially in $N$-body simulations of gravitational bound stellar systems, but it is not well understood how the accuracy parameters of algorithms affect the physical evolution in simulations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-23 Long Wang , David M. Hernandez

Infant mortality brought about by the expulsion of a star cluster's natal gas is widely invoked to explain cluster statistics at different ages. While a well studied problem, most recent studies of gas expulsion's effect on a cluster have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Nickolas Moeckel , Christopher Holland , Cathie J. Clarke , Ian A. Bonnell

In this work, we aim to answer one crucial question behind the discrepancy between chemical trends of field stars and clusters in the Galactic disk: is the chemical gradient mismatch driven by cluster migration and differential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Alessa I. Wiggins , Sarah Loebman , Peter Frinchaboy

The stellar-dynamical evolution of bound star clusters during the first few Myr is dominated by binary-binary and binary-star interactions, the rapid sinking of the most massive stars to the centre of the clusters and mass loss from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel Kroupa

We describe results from large numbers of $N$-body simulations containing from $250$ to $1000$ stars each. The distribution of stellar masses is a power law, and the systems are isolated. While the collapse of the core exhibits the expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mirek Giersz , Douglas C. Heggie

We describe the interplay between stellar evolution and dynamical mass loss of evolving star clusters, based on the principles of stellar evolution and cluster dynamics and on a grid of N-body simulations of cluster models. The cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers , Holger Baumgardt , Mark Gieles

We carry out N-body simulations to examine the effects of dynamical interactions on planetary systems in young open star clusters. We explore how the planetary populations in these star clusters evolve, and how this evolution depends on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Xiaochen Zheng , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Long Wang

We present the results of an attempt to adapt the distribution function formalism to characterize large-scale structures like clusters of galaxies that form in a cosmological N-body simulation. While galaxy clusters are systems that are not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Priyamvada Natarajan , Jens Hjorth , Eelco van Kampen

We compare the results for the dynamical evolution of star clusters derived from anisotropic gaseous models with the data from N-body simulations of isolated and one-component systems, each having modest number of stars. The statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mirek Giersz , Rainer Spurzem

A large sample of young stellar groups is analysed aiming to investigate their clustering properties and dynamical evolution. A comparison of the Q statistical parameter, measured for the clusters, with the fractal dimension estimated for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Gregorio-Hetem , A. Hetem , T. Santos-Silva , B. Fernandes

Star clusters are observed to form in a highly compact state and with low star-formation efficiencies, and only 10 per cent of all clusters appear to survive to middle- and old-dynamical age. If the residual gas is expelled on a dynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel Kroupa

Evolution of the mass function (MF) and radial distribution (RD) of the Galactic globular cluster (GC) system is calculated using an advanced and a realistic Fokker-Planck (FP) model that considers dynamical friction, disc/bulge shocks and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jihye Shin , Sungsoo S. Kim , Koji Takahashi

We investigate the dissolution process of young embedded star clusters with different primordial mass segregation levels using fractal distributions by means of N-body simulations. We combine several star clusters in virial and subvirial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 R. Domínguez , J. P. Farias , M. Fellhauer , Ralf S. Klessen