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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 707, 期 2, 页码 1533-1540出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/1533
关键词
globular clusters: general; methods: numerical; stellar dynamics
资金
- Chandra/Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship [PF7-80047]
- NASA, Northwestern University [NNG06GI62G]
- NSF [PHY05-51164]
Using our recently improved Monte Carlo evolution code, we study the evolution of the binary fraction in globular clusters. In agreement with previous N-body simulations, we find generally that the hard binary fraction in the core tends to increase with time over a range of initial cluster central densities for initial binary fractions less than or similar to 90%. The dominant processes driving the evolution of the core binary fraction are mass segregation of binaries into the cluster core and preferential destruction of binaries there. On a global scale, these effects and the preferential tidal stripping of single stars tend to roughly balance, leading to overall cluster binary fractions that are roughly constant with time. Our findings suggest that the current hard binary fraction near the half-mass radius is a good indicator of the hard primordial binary fraction. However, the relationship between the true binary fraction and the fraction of main-sequence stars in binaries (which is typically what observers measure) is nonlinear and rather complicated. We also consider the importance of soft binaries, which not only modify the evolution of the binary fraction, but can also drastically change the evolution of the cluster as a whole. Finally, we briefly describe the recent addition of single and binary stellar evolution to our cluster evolution code.
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