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astro-ph2007★ 22 cited
Virtual Laboratories and Virtual Worlds
Piet Hut
Since we cannot put stars in a laboratory, astrophysicists had to wait till the invention of computers before becoming laboratory scientists. For half a century now, we have been c…
astro-ph2007★ 6 cited
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…
astro-ph2007★ 11 cited
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…