Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
Aug 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006iaujd..14e..15b&link_type=abstract
Modelling Dense Stellar Systems, 26th meeting of the IAU, Joint Discussion 14, 22-23 August 2006, Prague, Czech Republic, JD14,
Mathematics
Probability
Scientific paper
We present a new approach to combine direct N-body simulations to stellar population synthesis modeling in order to model the dynamical evolution and color evolution of globular clusters at the same time. This allows us to model the spectrum, colors and luminosities of each star in the simulated cluster. For this purpose the NBODY6++ code (Spurzem 1999) is used, which is a parallel version of the NBODY code. J. Hurley implemented simple recipes to follow the changes of stellar masses, radii, and luminosities due to stellar evolution into the NBODY6++ code (Hurley et al. 2001), in the sense that each simulation particle represents one star. These prescriptions cover all evolutionary phases and solar to globular cluster metallicities. We used the stellar parameters obtained by this stellar evolution routine and coupled them to the stellar library BaSeL 2.0 (Lejeune et al. 1997). As a first application we investigated the integrated broad band colors of simulated clusters. We modeled tidally disrupted globular clusters and compared the results with isolated globular clusters. Due to energy equipartition we expected a relative blueing of tidally disrupted clusters, because of the higher escape probability of red, low-mass stars. This behaviour we actually observe for concentrated globular clusters. The mass-to-light ratio of isolated clusters follows exactly a color-M/L correlation, similar as described in Bell and de Jong (2001) in the case of spiral galaxies. At variance to this correlation, in tidally disrupted clusters the M/L ratio becomes significantly lower at the time of cluster dissolution. Hence, for isolated clusters the behavior of the stellar population is not influenced by dynamical evolution, whereas the stellar population of tidally disrupted clusters is strongly influenced by dynamical effects.
Borch Andrea
Hurley Jarrod
Spurzem Rainer
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