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Pre-Collapse Evolution of Galactic Globular Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Toshiyuki Fukushige  and
Douglas C. Heggie
Toshiyuki Fukushige
Affiliation:
College of Arts and Science, University of Tokyo
Douglas C. Heggie
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh

Abstract

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We investigated collisionless aspects of the early evolution of model star clusters. The effects of mass loss through stellar evolution and of a steady tidal field are modelled using N-body simulations. Our results (which depend on the assumed initial structure and the mass spectrum) agree qualitatively with those of Chernoff & Weinberg (1990), who used a Fokker-Planck model with a spherically symmetric tidal cutoff. For those systems which are disrupted, the lifetime to disruption generally exceeds that found by Chernoff & Weinberg, sometimes by as much as an order of magnitude.

Type
Stellar Dynamics, Models
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 174: Dynamical Evolution of Stars Clusters , 1996 , pp. 365 - 366
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

References

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