Binary Stars and Globular Cluster Dynamics

In this brief proceedings article I summarize the review talk I gave at the IAU 246 meeting in Capri, Italy, glossing over the well-known results from the literature, but paying particular attention to new, previously unpublished material. This new material includes a careful comparison of the appar...

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Published in:Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 2007-09, Vol.3 (S246), p.239-245
Main Author: Fregeau, John M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Binary stars
Contributed Papers
Double stars
Globular clusters
Monte Carlo simulation
Simulation
Star & galaxy formation
Stellar systems
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Summary:In this brief proceedings article I summarize the review talk I gave at the IAU 246 meeting in Capri, Italy, glossing over the well-known results from the literature, but paying particular attention to new, previously unpublished material. This new material includes a careful comparison of the apparently contradictory results of two independent methods used to simulate the evolution of binary populations in dense stellar systems (the direct N-body method of Hurley, Aarseth, & Shara (2007) and the approximate Monte Carlo method of Ivanova et al. (2005)), that shows that the two methods may not actually yield contradictory results, and suggests future work to more directly compare the two methods.
ISSN:1743-9213
1743-9221
DOI:10.1017/S1743921308015676