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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 539, Issue 1, Pages 331-341Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/309220
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celestial mechanics, stellar dynamics; globular clusters : general; instabilities; methods : n-body simulations
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We present the results of Monte Carlo simulations for the dynamical evolution of star clusters containing two stellar populations with individual masses m(1) and m(2) > m(1), and total masses M-1 and M-2 < M-1. We use both King and Plummer model initial conditions, and we perform simulations for a wide range of individual and total mass ratios, m(2)/m(1) and M-2/M-1. We ignore the effects of binaries, stellar evolution, and the galactic tidal held. The simulations use N = 10(5) stars and follow the evolution of the clusters until core collapse. We find that the departure from energy equipartition in the core follows approximately the theoretical predictions of Spitzer and Lightman & Fall, and we suggest a more exact condition that is based on our results. We find good agreement with previous results obtained by other methods regarding several important features of the evolution, including the precollapse distribution of heavier stars, the timescale on which equipartition is approached, and the extent to which core collapse is accelerated by a small subpopulation of heavier stars. We briefly discuss the possible implications of our results for the dynamical evolution of primordial black holes and neutron stars in globular clusters.
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