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Dynamics and Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems

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Dynamics and Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems
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Book excerpt: (Cont.) The results clearly show that the presence of even a small fraction of binaries in a cluster is sufficient to support the core against collapse significantly beyond the normal core collapse time predicted without the presence of binaries. For tidally truncated systems, collapse is delayed sufficiently that the cluster will undergo complete tidal disruption before core collapse. Moving a step beyond analytical prescriptions, I incorporate into the Monte-Carlo code an exact treatment of binary-single interactions, and show that the results are in good agreement with those using analytical prescriptions. The direct integration of binary interactions in the Monte-Carlo code requires a reason- ably sophisticated N-body code geared toward small-N dynamics. I present and describe in detail Fewbody, a new, freely available numerical toolkit for simulating small-N gravitational dynamics. Fewbody is a general N-body dynamics code, though it was written for the purpose of performing scattering experiments, and therefore has several features that make it well-suited for this purpose. To validate the method, I compare with several previous binary scattering experiments in the literature and find excellent agreement. As a simple example of the use of Fewbody, I calculate the destruction cross sections and characteristic lifetimes of black hole-pulsar binaries in globular clusters. At present, there should be observable ...


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