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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 474, Issue 3, Pages 3740-3745Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3034
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methods: numerical; binaries: general; open clusters and associations: general; galaxies: star clusters: general
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- CAPES Foundation
- Brazilian Ministry of Education [BEX 13514/13-0]
- National Science Centre, Poland [UMO-2016/21/N/ST9/02938, UMO-2016/23/B/ST9/02732]
- ESO, Garching through a science visitor position
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In order to allow a better understanding of the origin of Galactic field populations, dynamical equivalence of stellar-dynamical systems has been postulated by Kroupa and Belloni et al. to allow mapping of solutions of the initial conditions of embedded clusters such that they yield, after a period of dynamical processing, the Galactic field population. Dynamically equivalent systems are defined to initially and finally have the same distribution functions of periods, mass ratios and eccentricities of binary stars. Here, we search for dynamically equivalent clusters using the MOCCA code. The simulations confirm that dynamically equivalent solutions indeed exist. The result is that the solution space is next to identical to the radius-mass relation of Marks & Kroupa, (r(h)/pc) = 0.1(-0.04)(+0.07) (M-ecl/M-circle dot)(0.13 +/- 0.04). This relation is in good agreement with the oIMF. This is achieved by applying a similar procedurebserved density of molecular cloud clumps. According to the solutions, the time-scale to reach dynamical equivalence is about 0.5 Myr which is, interestingly, consistent with the lifetime of ultra-compact H (II) regions and the time-scale needed for gas expulsion to be active in observed very young clusters as based on their dynamical modelling.
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