Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-12-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
15 pages, 24 figures
Scientific paper
We describe a major upgrade of a Monte Carlo code which has previously been used for many studies of dense star clusters. We outline the steps needed in order to calibrate the results of the new Monte Carlo code against N-body simulations for large $N$ systems, up to N=200000. The new version of the Monte Carlo code (called MOCCA), in addition to the old version, incorporates direct FewBody integrator for three- and four-body interactions, and new treatment of the escape process based on Fokushige and Heggie (2000). Now stars which fulfil the escape criterion are not removed immediately, but can stay in the system for a certain time which depends on the excess of the energy of a star above the critical energy. They are called potential escapers. FewBody integrator allows to follow all interaction channels, which are important for the rate of creation of various types of objects observed in star clusters, and assures that the energy generation by binaries is treated in a meaner similar to the N-body model. There are at most three parameters which have to be adjusted against N-body simulations for large N. Two (or one, depends on the chosen approach) connected with the escape process and one responsible for determination of the interaction probabilities. The adopted free parameters are independent on N. They allow MOCCA code to reproduce N-body results, in a reasonably precision, not only for the rate of cluster evolution and the cluster mass distribution, but also for the detailed distributions of mass and binding energy of binaries. The MOCCA code is at present the most advanced code for simulations of real star clusters. It can follow the cluster evolution in details comparable to N-body code, but orders of magnitude faster.
Giersz Mirek
Heggie Douglas C.
Hurley Jarrod
Hypki Arkadiusz
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