Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-06-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
6 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
The discovery of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters raises fundamental questions concerning the formation and dynamical history of these systems. In a previous study aimed at exploring the formation of second-generation (SG) stars from the ejecta of first-generation (FG) AGB stars, and the subsequent dynamical evolution of the cluster, we showed that SG stars are expected to form in a dense subsystem concentrated in the inner regions of the FG cluster. In this paper we explore the implications of the structural properties of multiple-population clusters, and in particular the presence of the inner SG subsystem, for the disruption of binary stars. We quantify the enhancement of the binary disruption rate due to the presence of the central SG subsystem for a number of different initial conditions. Our calculations show that SG binaries, which are assumed to be more concentrated in the cluster inner regions, are disrupted at a substantially larger rate than FG binaries. Assuming a similar initial fraction of FG and SG binaries, our dynamical study indicates that the SG population is now expected to contain a significantly smaller binary fraction than the FG population.
D'Antona Francesca
D'Ercole Annibale
McMillan Stephen L. W.
Vesperini Enrico
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