Star cluster ecology - VII. The evolution of young dense star clusters containing primordial binaries
Star cluster ecology - VII. The evolution of young dense star clusters containing primordial binaries
We study the first 100Myr of the evolution of isolated star clusters initially containing 144179 stars, including 13107 (10%) primordial hard binaries. Our calculations include the effects of both stellar and binary evolution. Gravitational interactions among the stars are computed by direct N-body integration using high precision GRAPE-6 hardware. The …