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The Influence of Binary Stars on Post-Collapse Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2007

Rosemary Apple*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, UK email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The results in the N-body simulations in Giersz & Heggie (1996) show that although the masses segregate as expected during core collapse, after core collapse there is self-similar evolution with very little further evidence of mass segregation even though the system has not reached equipartition. Binary stars halt core collapse and it is possible that they also halt the tendency toward equipartition. To investigate this problem, we construct two models. One model is a two-component model which assumes that binary stars form in the region dominated by heavy stars. The other model is a single mass model which assumes that binary stars form only in the region of the core. In both models, when the binary heating term is included, we find the post-collapse evolution to be self-similar. The aim of our work is to combine these two models to form a two-component model which assumes that binary formation only occurs in the core.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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