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Star Cluster Ecology: VII The evolution of young dense star clusters containing primordial binaries

Simon Portegies Zwart·Steve McMillan·Jun Makino
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We study the first 100Myr of the evolution of isolated star clusters initially containing 144179 stars, including 13107 (10%) primordial hard binaries. Our calculations include the effects of both stellar and binary evolution. Gravitational interactions among the stars are computed by direct N-body integration using high precision GRAPE-6 hardware. The evolution of the core radii and central concentrations of our simulated clusters are compared with the observed sample of young (about 100Myr) star clusters in the large Magellanic cloud. Even though our simulations start with a rich population of primordial binaries, core collapse during the early phase of the cluster evolution is not prevented. Throughout the simulations, the fraction of binaries remains roughly constant (about 10%). Due to the effects of mass segregation the mass function of intermediate-mass main-sequence stars becomes as flat as $α=-1.8$ in the central part of the cluster (where the initial Salpeter mass function had $α=-2.35$). About 6--12% of the neutron stars were retained in our simulations; the fraction of retained black holes is 40--70%. In each simulation about three neutron stars become members of close binaries with a main-sequence companion. Such a binary will eventually become an x-ray binary, when the main-sequence star starts to fill its Roche lobe. Black holes are found more frequently in binaries; in each simulated cluster we find about 11 potential x-ray binaries containing a black hole. Abstract abbreviated....

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Simon Portegies Zwart, Steve McMillan, Jun Makino. 2006-09-27. Star Cluster Ecology: VII The evolution of young dense star clusters containing primordial binaries. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11142.x

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