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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 338, Issue 3, Pages 665-672Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06076.x
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stars : evolution; stars : formation; galaxies : star clusters
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We study analytically the disruptive effect of instantaneous gas removal from a cluster containing O stars. We set up an iterative calculation based on the stellar velocity distribution function to compute the fraction of stars that remain bound once the cluster has ejected the gas and is out of equilibrium. We show that the stellar bound fraction is a function of the initial cluster distribution function as well as the star-formation efficiency, epsilon, taken constant throughout the cluster. The case of the Plummer sphere is dealt with in greater detail, where we find that up to similar or equal to50 per cent of the stars may remain bound when epsilon assumes values < 1/2, contrary to expectations derived from the virial theorem. The fraction of bound stars is expressed algebraically for polytropic distribution functions.
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