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Exchange Cross Sections For Hard Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Douglas C. Heggie ,
Piet Hut  and
Stephen L.W. McMillan
Douglas C. Heggie
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, U.K.
Piet Hut
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, U.S.A.
Stephen L.W. McMillan
Affiliation:
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A.

Abstract

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We present results on the exchange cross section for the interaction between a hard binary and a field of single stars, for arbitrary masses. The results are based partly on extensive numerical scattering experiments, and partly on analytic estimates of the mass-dependence of the cross section. They can be used to estimate the rate of exchange in an arbitrary mixture of masses, provided that the binary is hard.

Type
Stellar Dynamics, Models
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 174: Dynamical Evolution of Stars Clusters , 1996 , pp. 371 - 372
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

References

Heggie, D.C., Hut, P., McMillan, S.L.W., 1995, preprint Google Scholar
McMillan, S.L.W., Hut, P., 1995, preprint Google Scholar