Disc Shocking and the Mass Function of Galactic Globular Clusters

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Apr 1993

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 261, NO.4/APR15, P. 819, 1993

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Stars: Luminosity Function, Mass Function - Galaxy: Evolution - Globular Clusters: General

Scientific paper

A new homogeneous analysis of the available data confirms that the slope of the stellar mass function for Galactic globular clusters seems to depend on the position relative to the potential of the Galaxy. It is shown that the observed dependence can be accounted for by developing the idea that all globular clusters are born with identical mass functions which then evolve through rapid interactions with the Galactic disc (disc-shocking). The limits of our semi-analytical approach based on the impulse approximation are tested by N-body simulations.

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