Clumpy substructures in globular cluster tidal tails

DOI10.1007/S10569-005-3221-YMaRDI QIDQ1776104zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. Di Matteo, Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta, Paolo Miocchi

Publication date 20 May 2005

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-005-3221-y

zbMATH Keywords

computational astrophysicsgalactic and stellar dynamicsglobular clustersnumerical simulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05)

Review text

The observational evidence of the interaction of globular clusters with the galactic tidal field is rapidly growing in the recent years. Some numerical works have investigated the complex phenomena related to the formation and evolution of clusters tidal tails and their orientation along the cluster orbit. The dynamical evolution of a globular cluster moving in a realistic galactic model (Schwarzschild model) was simulated by the \(N\)-body problem mutually interacting via the newtonian force. The external galactic field was presented by the Schwarzschild model which refers to a non-rotating self-consistent triaxial ellipsoid with axis ratios \(2:1.25:1\), typical of many galaxies. As an initial cluster model a multi-mass King distribution (with 10 mass classes ranging between 0.12 and 1.2[pic] and equally spaced in a logarithmic scale) was chosen. The main results of numerical simulations are summarized and discussed.

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