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Gas depletion in primordial globular clusters due to accretion onto stellar-mass black holes
Nathan W. C. Leigh, Torsten Boker, Thomas J. Maccarone +1
(abridged) We consider the effect of stellar remnants on the interstellar medium of a massive star cluster following the initial burst of star formation. We argue that accretion on…
The Origins of Blue Stragglers and Binarity in Globular Clusters
Nathan Leigh, Christian Knigge, Alison Sills +3
(abridged) We use newly available empirical binary fractions for globular clusters to carry out a direct test of the binary evolution hypothesis, and of collisional channels that i…
Small-N Collisional Dynamics: Pushing Into the Realm of Not-So-Small-N
Nathan Leigh, Aaron Geller
In this paper, we study small-N gravitational dynamics involving up to six objects. We perform a large suite of numerical scattering experiments involving single, binary, and tripl…
Nuclear Star Clusters and the Stellar Spheroids of their Host Galaxies
Nathan Leigh, Torsten Böker, Christian Knigge
(Abridged) We combine published photometry for the nuclear star clusters (NSCs) and stellar spheroids of 51 low-mass, early-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster with empirical mass-t…
Quantifying the Universality of the Stellar Initial Mass Function in Old Star Clusters
Nathan Leigh, Stefan Umbreit, Alison Sills +4
We present a new technique to quantify cluster-to-cluster variations in the observed present-day stellar mass functions of a large sample of star clusters. Our method quantifies th…