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Scientific paper
Nov 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002phdt.........3k&link_type=abstract
PhD Thesis, Naturwissenschaftlich-Mathematische Gesamtfakultät der Universität Heidelberg, Germany. 70 pp. (2002)
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Star Clusters, N-Body Simulations
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The dynamical evolution of an isolated self-gravitating system is studied under the aspects of mass segregation and equipartition processes. We analyse the idealized case of a cluster with two distinct mass components. The individual ratio of the heavy to light bodies, μ = m2/m1, is varied from 1.25 to 50.0 and the fraction of the total heavy mass is altered from 5% to 40% of the whole cluster. We also examine the cluster properties like the core collapse, the evolution of the central potential, the radial stratification of masses as well as escapers. We present new, high-accuracy collisional N-body simulations, using the high-order integrator NBODY6++. We modelled up to N = 20,000 particles on the parallel supercomputer CRAY T3E, and the statistical significancy of the lower-N simulations was improved by ensemble averages. Our objective is to check the various theories on early star formation and dynamical evolution. We find significant deviations of the evolutionary time scale in the regime μ --> 1. Equipartition slows down the gravothermal contraction of the core slightly. Beyond a critical value of μ ~ 2, no equipartition can be achieved between the different masses, a phenomenon known as the Spitzer equipartition instability; the heavy component decouples and collapses under the influence of the gravothermal instability of its own subsystem. For the first time the critical boundary between Spitzer-stable and -unstable systems is demonstrated in direct N-body models.
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