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A comprehensive Nbody study of mass segregation in star clusters: Energy equipartition and escape

Khalisi, E., Amaro-Seoane, P., & Spurzem, R. (2007). A comprehensive Nbody study of mass segregation in star clusters: Energy equipartition and escape. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, 374, 703-720. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602570.

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Khalisi, Emil, Author
Amaro-Seoane, Pau1, Author
Spurzem, Rainer, Author
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1Astrophysical Relativity, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society, ou_24013

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Abstract: We address the dynamical evolution of an isolated self--gravitating system with two stellar mass groups. We vary the individual ratio of the heavy to light bodies, $\mu$ from 1.25 to 50 and alter also the fraction of the total heavy mass $\MH$ from 5% to 40% of the whole cluster mass. Clean-cut properties of the cluster dynamics are examined, like core collapse, the evolution of the central potential, as well as escapers. We present in this work collisional $N$-body simulations, using the high--order integrator NBODY6++ with up to ${\cal N}_{\star}=2\cdot 10^4$ particles improving the statistical significancy of the lower--${\cal N}_{\star}$ simulations by ensemble averages. Equipartition slows down the gravothermal contraction of the core slightly. Beyond a critical value of $\mu \approx 2$, no equipartition can be achieved between the different masses; the heavy component decouples and collapses. For the first time the critical boundary between Spitzer--stable and --unstable systems is demonstrated in direct $N$-body models.

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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 374 Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 703 - 720 Identifier: -