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Analytical Binary Modeling and its Role in Dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2007

Tapan K. Chatterjee
Tapan K. Chatterjee*
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Department of Physics, University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico e-mail chtapan@yahoo.com
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Binaries are critical tools that drive stellar systems; which play a major role in galactic dynamics. Internal evolution of globular clusters, e.g., due to evolution of binaries, can be modulated by external effects, like tidal shocks (e.g., Chernoff & Weinberg 1990). There are well-established relations between dynamical properties of globular clusters and their galactrocentric distance, R(g). A characteristic one is: D(1/2) ≈ [R(g)]1/2, where D(1/2) is the diameter containing half the mass / luminosity in projection (van den Bergh et al. 1991). This relation could be a result of tidal evaporation of clusters and feedback of forming protoclusters (Surdin, 1995). A similar limitation of globular cluster distributions is obtained in the half-mass density kinetic temperature plot and used in many cluster formation scenarios (Muray & Lin 1992). This relationship should have an explanation on the basis of dynamic evolution of the cluster population.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S240: Binary Stars as Critical Tools & Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics , August 2006 , pp. 650 - 651
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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