Computer simulations of close encounters between single stars and hard binaries
Abstract
Computer simulations have been used in the analysis of close encounters between hard binaries and single stars. Emphasis is placed on the experimental study of the physics of these encounters. The cross sections of energy transfer between hard binaries and field stars is computed using the results of the simulations at zero impact parameter.
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- September 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1086/112798
- Bibcode:
- 1980AJ.....85.1281H
- Keywords:
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- Binary Stars;
- Celestial Mechanics;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Star Clusters;
- Stellar Motions;
- Energy Transfer;
- Globular Clusters;
- Mass Distribution;
- Star Distribution;
- Stellar Mass;
- Astronomy