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Modelling Individual Globular Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2007

Douglas C. Heggie  and
Mirek Giersz
Douglas C. Heggie
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK email: d.c.heggie@ed.ac.uk
Mirek Giersz
Affiliation:
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland email: mig@camk.edu.pl
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Astronomers have constructed models of globular clusters for over 100 years. These models mainly fall into two categories: (i) static models, such as King's model and its variants, and (ii) evolutionary models. Most attention has been given to static models, which are used to estimate mass-to-light ratios and mass segregation, and to combine data from proper motions and radial velocities. Evolutionary models have been developed for a few objects using the gaseous model, the Fokker-Planck model, Monte Carlo models and N-body models. These models have had a significant role in the search for massive black holes in globular clusters, for example.

In this presentation the problems associated with these various techniques will be summarised, and then we shall describe new work with Giersz's Monte Carlo code, which has been enhanced recently to include the stellar evolution of single and binary stars. We describe in particular recent attempts to model the nearby globular cluster M4, including predictions on the spatial distribution of binary stars and their semi-major axis distribution, to illustrate the effects of about 12 Gyr of dynamical evolution. We also discuss work on an approximate way of predicting the “initial” conditions for such modelling.

Keywords

methods: numericalglobular clusters: generalglobular clusters: individual (M4)
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 3 , Symposium S246: Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems , September 2007 , pp. 121 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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