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Modelling individual globular clusters
D. C. Heggie, M. Giersz
Astronomers have constructed models of globular clusters for over 100 years. These models mainly fall into two categories: (i) static models, such as King's model and its variants,…
Monte Carlo simulations of star clusters with primordial binaries. Comparison with N-body simulations and observations
Mirek Giersz, Douglas C. Heggie
We outline the steps needed in to calibrate the Monte Carlo code in order to perform large scale simulations of real globular clusters. We calibrate the results against -body si…
Modeling Dense Stellar Systems
Piet Hut, Shin Mineshige, Douglas C. Heggie +1
Black holes and neutron stars present extreme forms of matter that cannot be created as such in a laboratory on Earth. Instead, we have to observe and analyze the experiments that…
Predictions for Triple Stars with and without a Pulsar in Star Clusters
M. Trenti, S. Ransom, P. Hut +1
Though about 80 pulsar binaries have been detected in globular clusters so far, no pulsar has been found in a triple system in which all three objects are of comparable mass. Here…
Exact equilibria of a stellar system in a linearised tidal field
David G. M. Mitchell, Douglas C. Heggie
We study the motion of stars in a star cluster which revolves in a circular orbit about its parent galaxy. The star cluster is modelled as an ellipsoid of uniform spatial density.…