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Dynamical Evolution of the Mass Function of the Globular Cluster System from Fokker-Planck Calculations: Preliminary Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Jihye Shin  and
Sungsoo S. Kim
Jihye Shin
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-shi, Kyungki-do 449-701, South Korea email: [email protected]
Sungsoo S. Kim
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-shi, Kyungki-do 449-701, South Korea email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Using anisotropic Fokker-Planck models, we calculate the evolution of mass and luminosity functions of the Galactic globular cluster system. Our models include two-body relaxation, binary heating, tidal shocks, dynamical friction, and stellar evolution. We perform Fokker-Planck simulations for a large number of virtual globular clusters and synthesize these results to study the relation between the initial and present GCMFs.

Keywords

Globular clusterFokker-Planck
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S235: Galaxy Evolution Across the Hubble Time , August 2006 , pp. 110
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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