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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

A revision of Stodolkiewicz's Monte Carlo code is used to simulate the evolution of million body star clusters. The new method treats each superstar as a single star and follows the evolution and motion of all individual stellar objects. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mirek Giersz

We report results of collisional N-body simulations aimed to study the N-dependance of the dynamical evolution of star clusters. Our clusters consist of equal-mass stars and are in virial equilibrium. Clusters moving in external tidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Baumgardt

(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

We test the hypothesis that metal-poor globular clusters form within disk galaxies at redshifts z>3. Numerical simulations demonstrate that giant gas clouds, which are cold and dense enough to produce massive star clusters, assemble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Jose L. Prieto , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Galaxies inhabiting a cluster environment experience significant evolution in their orbital motions throughout time; this is accompanied by changes in the anisotropy parameter, measuring the relative importance of radial and tangential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Francesca Iannuzzi , Klaus Dolag

Internal rotation has emerged as a fundamental feature of globular clusters (GCs), yet its origin and long-term evolution remain poorly understood. We explore the evolution of rotating GCs over a Hubble time under the combined influence of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 P. Bianchini , A. L. Varri , A. Askar , A. Marklund , A. Mastrobuono-Battisti

The evolution of a spherical single-mass star cluster is followed in detail up to core collapse by numerically solving the orbit-averaged two-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation in energy-angular momentum space. Velocity anisotropy is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Koji Takahashi

Recent high-precision observations with HST and Gaia enabled new investigations of the internal kinematics of star clusters (SCs) and the dependence of kinematic properties on the stellar mass. These studies raised new questions about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-25 Václav Pavlík , Douglas C. Heggie , Anna Lisa Varri , Enrico Vesperini

The mass evaporation rate of globular clusters evolving in a strong Galactic tidal field is derived through the analysis of large, multi-mass $N$-body simulations. For comparison, we also study the same evaporation rates using MOCCA Monte…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Juan P. Madrid , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Jarrod R. Hurley , Mirek Giersz

A revision of Stod\{'o}{\l}kiewicz's Monte Carlo code is used to simulate evolution of large star clusters. A survey of the evolution of N-body systems influenced by the tidal field of a parent galaxy and by stellar evolution is presented.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mirek Giersz

We present the results of a series of numerical simulations aimed to study the evolution of a disc galaxy within the global tidal field of a group environment. Both the disc galaxy and the group are modelled as multi-component,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Álvaro Villalobos , Gabriella De Lucia , Stefano Borgani , Giuseppe Murante

We present new Fokker-Planck models of the evolution of globular clusters, including gravitational tidal shocks. We extend our calculations beyond the core collapse by adopting three-body binary heating. Effects of the shocks are included…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Oleg Y. Gnedin , Hyung Mok Lee , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

The evolution of star clusters is studied using N-body simulations in which the evolution of single stars and binaries are taken self-consistently into account. Initial conditions are chosen to represent relatively young Galactic open…

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

We study the evolution of star clusters in the Galactic tidal field starting from their birth in molecular clumps. Our model clusters form according to the local-density-driven cluster formation model in which the stellar density profile is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev , Genevieve Parmentier , Peter Berczik , Andreas Just

The evolution of globular clusters due to 2-body relaxation results in an outward flow of energy and at some stage all clusters need a central energy source to sustain their evolution. Henon provided the insight that we do not need to know…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-17 Mark Gieles , Douglas C. Heggie , HongSheng Zhao

We have studied the system of globular clusters (GCs) that formed in other galaxies and eventually accreted onto the Milky Way. Thus, the samples of GCs belonging to different tidal streams, obtained on the basis of the latest data from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-23 N. R. Arakelyan , S. V. Pilipenko

In this paper we study the long-term dynamical evolution of multiple-population clusters, focusing on the evolution of the spatial distributions of the first- (FG) and second-generation (SG) stars.In previous studies we have suggested that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Enrico Vesperini , Stephen L. W. McMillan , Francesca D'Antona , Annibale D'Ercole

We use direct $N$-body calculations to investigate the impact of primordial mass segregation on the size scale and mass-loss rate of star clusters in a galactic tidal field. We run a set of simulations of clusters with varying degrees of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Hosein Haghi , Seyed Mohammad Hoseini-Rad , Akram Hasani Zonoozi , Andreas H. W. Kuepper