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تسجيل مستخدم جديدPrimordial mass segregation of star clusters: The role of binary stars
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Vaclav Pavlik
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Observational results of young star-forming regions suggest that star clusters are completely mass segregated at birth. As a star cluster evolves dynamically, these initial conditions are gradually lost. For star clusters with single stars only and a canonical IMF, it has been suggested that traces of these initial conditions vanish at $tau_{rm v}$ between 3 and 3.5 half-mass relaxation times. By the means of numerical models, here we investigate the role of the primordial binary population on the loss of primordial mass segregation. We found that $tau_{rm v}$ does not seem to depend on the binary star distribution, yielding $3 < tau_{rm v} / t_{rm rh} < 3.5$. We also conclude that the completely mass segregated clusters, even with binaries, are more compatible with the present-day ONC than the non-segregated ones.
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