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Star cluster ecology III: Runaway collisions in young compact star clusters
Simon Portegies Zwart, Junichiro Makino, Stephen L. W. McMillan +1
The evolution of young compact star clusters is studied using N-body simulations in which both stellar evolution and physical collisions between stars are taken into account. The i…
On the dissolution of evolving star clusters
Simon Portegies Zwart, Piet Hut, Junichiro Makino +1
Using direct N-body simulations which include both the evolution of single stars and the tidal field of the parent galaxy, we study the dynamical evolution of globular clusters and…
Gamma-ray bursts and density evolution of neutron star binary mergers
Philippe Bagot, Simon F. Portegies Zwart, Lev R. Yungelson
The evolution of the comoving cosmic merger-rate density of neutron star binaries n_c(z) is calculated using a distribution of their merging times provided by population-synthesis…
Evolution of Close Binaries: Formation and Merger of Neutron Star Binaries
Lev Yungelson, Simon F. Portegies Zwart
We discuss the formation and evolution of binaries which contain neutron stars or black holes. It is shown that in a stellar system which for yr had star formation rate s…