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Evolution of star clusters moving on elliptic orbits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Holger Baumgardt
Holger Baumgardt*
Affiliation:
Dep. of Astronomy, School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ko, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Abstract

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We describe results of N-body simulations of star clusters moving on elliptic orbits. Our aim is to follow the evolution of these clusters and study how their dissolution times depend on particle number and eccentricity.

We find that the scaling of the lifetimes is nearly independent of the eccentricity, despite the fact that the amount of tidal shocking changes with eccentricity. In addition, no leveling off of the lifetimes at the high-N end, which would indicate the influence of tidal shocking, is seen.

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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 208: Astrophysical Supercomputing using Particle Simulations , 2003 , pp. 377 - 378
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

References

Baumgardt, H., 2001, MNRAS, 325, 1323 Google Scholar
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