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N-body Models of Open Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2007

Jarrod R. Hurley
Jarrod R. Hurley*
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, VIC 3122, Australia email: jhurley@swin.edu.au
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Abstract

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N-body simulations of open cluster evolution with primordial binaries are reviewed. In particular, recent results arising from models with initial N in the range of 20000–100000 bodies are compared to earlier idealized models with N ~ 2000. Efforts to model real clusters are discussed, including how limitations of the models such as simplified initial conditions will be addressed in the near future.

Keywords

stellar dynamicsmethods: n-body simulationsbinaries: closeopen clusters and associations: general

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