Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1994-12-20
Astrophys.J.Suppl.99:609,1995
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
59 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript, including 18 figures. Astrophysical Journal Supplements, in press
Scientific paper
10.1086/192199
We model the dynamics of test binaries in isotropic, multi-mass models of galactic globular clusters. The evolution of binary orbits through the cluster potentials is modeled, including second order diffusion terms, and probabilities for close encounters with field stars are calculated. We carry out Monte Carlo simulations of the effects of the binary--single star encounters on the binary population and distribution in the cluster, and estimate the collision rate for different stellar populations in globular clusters with different structural parameters. Assuming a Salpeter IMF, for low concentration clusters the core encounter rate is dominated by turnoff mass main--sequence stars and medium mass white dwarfs. For high concentration, high density clusters the encounter probabilities are increasingly dominated by neutron stars and heavy white dwarfs. Hence we predict a smaller ratio of blue stragglers and cataclysmic variables to pulsars in high concentration clusters. The total number of millisecond pulsars, and the ratio of single to binary pulsars, is broadly consistent with the observed population, suggesting the binary--single star encounters contribute significantly to the pulsar formation rate in globular clusters, for the whole range of globular cluster types. The number of millisecond pulsars and the ratio of pulsars in different globular clusters is best explained by a total binary fraction comparable to that of the galaxy, and a modest number of primordial neutron stars in the globular clusters.
Phinney Sterl E.
Sigurdsson Steinn
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