
Abbas Askar
Postdoc

MOCCA-SURVEY Database I : Dissolution of tidally filling star clusters harboring black hole subsystem
Author
Summary, in English
We investigate the dissolution process of star clusters embedded in an external tidal field and harboring a subsystem of stellar-mass black hole. For this purpose we analyzed the MOCCA models of real star clusters contained in the Mocca Survey Database I. We showed that the presence of a stellar-mass black hole subsystem in tidally filling star cluster can lead to abrupt cluster dissolution connected with the loss of cluster dynamical equilibrium. Such cluster dissolution can be regarded as a third type of cluster dissolution mechanism. We additionally argue that such a mechanism should also work for tidally under-filling clusters with a top-heavy initial mass function.
Department/s
- Lund Observatory
Publishing year
2019
Language
English
Pages
438-441
Publication/Series
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Volume
14
Issue
351
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic
- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Keywords
- globular clusters: general
- methods: numerical
- stars: black holes
- stellar dynamics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1743-9213