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Tidal disruption, global mass function and structural parameters evolution in star clusters
Michele Trenti, Enrico Vesperini, Mario Pasquato
[abridged] We present a unified picture for the evolution of star clusters on the two-body relaxation timescale. We use direct N-body simulations of star clusters in a galactic tid…
Star cluster dynamics
Enrico Vesperini
Dynamical evolution plays a key role in shaping the current properties of star clusters and star cluster systems. A detailed understanding of the effects of evolutionary processes…
Evidence for two populations of Galactic globular clusters from the ratio of their half-mass to Jacobi radii
Holger Baumgardt, Genevieve Parmentier, Mark Gieles +1
We investigate the ratio between the half-mass radii r_h of Galactic globular clusters and their Jacobi radii r_J given by the potential of the Milky Way and show that clusters wit…
Effects of Primordial Mass Segregation on the Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters
Enrico Vesperini, Stephen L. W. McMillan, Simon Portegies Zwart
In this paper we use N-body simulations to study the effects of primordial mass segregation on the early and long-term evolution of star clusters. Our simulations show that in segr…