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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 448, Issue 4, Pages 3416-3422Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv245
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methods: numerical
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- European Research Council [ERC-StG-257720, ERC-StG-335936]
- Royal Society
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We introduce a numerical method to integrate tidal effects on collisional systems, using any definition of the external potential as a function of space and time. Rather than using a linearization of the tidal field, this new method follows a differential technique to numerically evaluate the tidal acceleration and its time derivative. These are then used to integrate the motions of the components of the collisional systems, like stars in star clusters, using a predictor-corrector scheme. The versatility of this approach allows the study of star clusters, including their tidal tails, in complex, multicomponents, time-evolving external potentials. The method is implemented in the code NBODY6.
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