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astro-ph.GA2011
Problems of Collisional Stellar Dynamics
Douglas C. Heggie
The discovery of dynamical friction was Chandrasekhar's best known contribution to the theory of stellar dynamics, but his work ranged from the few-body problem to the limit of lar…
astro-ph.GA2011★ 178 cited
The life cycle of star cluster in a tidal field
Mark Gieles, Douglas C. Heggie, HongSheng Zhao
The evolution of globular clusters due to 2-body relaxation results in an outward flow of energy and at some stage all clusters need a central energy source to sustain their evolut…
astro-ph.GA2009★ 52 cited
Monte Carlo Simulations of Star Clusters - VI. The globular cluster NGC 6397
M. Giersz, D. C. Heggie
We describe Monte Carlo models for the dynamical evolution of the nearby globular cluster NGC 6397. The code includes treatments of two-body relaxation, most kinds of three- and fo…