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用星团蒙特卡罗程序模拟Milky Way及更远的稠密星团

Modeling Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way and Beyond with the Cluster Monte Carlo Code

Carl L. Rodriguez, Newlin C. Weatherford, Scott C. Coughlin, Pau Amaro Seoane, Katelyn Breivik, Sourav Chatterjee, Giacomo Fragione, Fulya Kıroğlu, Kyle Kremer,… 展开作者

Carl L. Rodriguez, Newlin C. Weatherford, Scott C. Coughlin, Pau Amaro Seoane, Katelyn Breivik, Sourav Chatterjee, Giacomo Fragione, Fulya Kıroğlu, Kyle Kremer, Nicholas Z. Rui, Claire S. Ye, Michael Zevin, Frederic A. Rasio

摘要:

我们描述了公开发布的集群蒙特卡罗代码(CMC)的并行,逐星$N$体代码建模密集星团。CMC使用Hénon的方法处理碰撞恒星动力学,其中许多两体相遇的累积效应在统计上被再现为最近邻粒子在弛豫时间尺度上的单一有效相遇。逐星方法允许包含额外的物理学,包括强引力三体和四体相遇,两体潮汐和引力波捕获,任意星系潮汐场中的质量损失,以及单星和双星的恒星演化。CMC的公开发布直接与COSMIC人口合成代码绑定,允许使用关于恒星物理和初始条件的相同假设进行动态星团模拟和人口合成研究。作为演示,我们提出了两个星团建模的例子:首先,我们执行最大的($N = 10^8$)逐星$N$ -体模拟普卢默球演化到核心坍缩,再现超过15个数量级的预期自相似密度分布;其次,我们生成了典型球状星团的真实模型,并且我们表明,它们的动力学演化可以产生大量的质量大于孤立双星演化产生的质量的黑洞合并(例如GW 190521,最近报道的与脉动对不稳定质量间隙中的分量质量合并)。

英文摘要:

We describe the public release of the Cluster Monte Carlo Code (CMC) a parallel, star-by-star $N$-body code for modeling dense star clusters. CMC treats collisional stellar dynamics using Hénon's method, where the cumulative effect of many two-body encounters is statistically reproduced as a single effective encounter between nearest-neighbor particles on a relaxation timescale. The star-by-star approach allows for the inclusion of additional physics, including strong gravitational three- and four-body encounters, two-body tidal and gravitational-wave captures, mass loss in arbitrary galactic tidal fields, and stellar evolution for both single and binary stars. The public release of CMC is pinned directly to the COSMIC population synthesis code, allowing dynamical star cluster simulations and population synthesis studies to be performed using identical assumptions about the stellar physics and initial conditions. As a demonstration, we present two examples of star cluster modeling: first, we perform the largest ($N = 10^8$) star-by-star $N$-body simulation of a Plummer sphere evolving to core collapse, reproducing the expected self-similar density profile over more than 15 orders of magnitude; second, we generate realistic models for typical globular clusters, and we show that their dynamical evolution can produce significant numbers of black hole mergers with masses greater than those produced from isolated binary evolution (such as GW190521, a recently reported merger with component masses in the pulsational pair-instability mass gap).

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