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Dynamics of Open Star Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Roland Wielen
Roland Wielen*
Affiliation:
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Abstract

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The dynamical evolution of open star clusters has been studied successfully by numerical N-body simulations. We compare in detail the theoretically predicted lifetimes with those derived from the observed age distribution of open clusters. Rare but efficient encounters between clusters and giant molecular clouds are probably responsible for the sudden disruption of many open clusters. Massive black holes from the galactic corona would, on the average, affect only old open clusters.

Type
Open Clusters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 113: Dynamic of Stars Clusters , 1985 , pp. 449 - 462
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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