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N-body Simulations of Star Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2007

Peter Anders ,
Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers  and
Holger Baumgardt
Peter Anders
Affiliation:
Sterrenkundig Instituut, Universiteit Utrecht, P.O. Box 80000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands; email: anders@astro.uu.nl/lamers@astro.uu.nl
Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers
Affiliation:
Sterrenkundig Instituut, Universiteit Utrecht, P.O. Box 80000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands; email: anders@astro.uu.nl/lamers@astro.uu.nl
Holger Baumgardt
Affiliation:
Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Auf dem Hügel 71, 53121 Bonn, Germany email: holger@astro.uni-bonn.de
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Abstract

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Two aspects of our recent N-body studies of star clusters are presented:

  1. 1) What impact does mass segregation and selective mass loss have on integrated photometry?

  2. 2) How well do results compare from N-body simulations using NBODY4 and STARLAB/KIRA?

Keywords

methods: n-body simulationsmethods: numericalstars: mass functiongalaxies: star clusters
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 3 , Symposium S246: Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems , September 2007 , pp. 187 - 188
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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