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Survivability of planetary systems in young and dense star clusters
Arjen van Elteren, Simon Portegies Zwart, Inti Pelupessy +2
We perform a simulation using the Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment of the Orion Trapezium star cluster in which the evolution of the stars and the dynamics of planet…
Exploring the Use of Virtual Worlds as a Scientific Research Platform: The Meta-Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA)
S. G. Djorgovski, P. Hut, S. McMillan +4
We describe the Meta-Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA), the first professional scientific organization based exclusively in virtual worlds (VWs). The goals of MICA ar…
A multiphysics and multiscale software environment for modeling astrophysical systems
Simon Portegies Zwart, Steve McMillan, Stefan Harfst +2
We present MUSE, a software framework for combining existing computational tools for different astrophysical domains into a single multiphysics, multiscale application. MUSE facili…
Black Holes in Massive Star Clusters
Steve McMillan, Holger Baumgardt, Simon Portegies Zwart +2
Close encounters and physical collisions between stars in young dense clusters can result in new channels for stellar evolution, and may lead to the formation of very massive stars…
Dynamics of Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Star Clusters
Holger Baumgardt, Simon Portegies Zwart, Steve McMillan +2
We have followed the evolution of multi-mass star clusters containing massive central black holes by N-body simulations on the GRAPE6 computers of Tokyo University. We find a stron…
Dynamical Formation of Close Binary Systems in Globular Clusters
D. Pooley, W. H. G. Lewin, S. F. Anderson +11
We know from observations that globular clusters are very efficient catalysts in forming unusual short-period binary systems or their offspring, such as low-mass X-ray binaries (LM…