Scattering black holes gain spin and mass by absorbing emitted gravitational radiation, with spin-up up to 0.3 and mass gain up to 15% in near-threshold encounters.
Monte-Carlo Simulations of Globular Cluster Evolution - I. Method and Test Calculations
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We present a new parallel supercomputer implementation of the Monte-Carlo method for simulating the dynamical evolution of globular star clusters. Our method is based on a modified version of Henon's Monte-Carlo algorithm for solving the Fokker-Planck equation. Our code allows us to follow the evolution of a cluster containing up to 5x10^5 stars to core collapse in < 40 hours of computing time. In this paper we present the results of test calculations for clusters with equal-mass stars, starting from both Plummer and King model initial conditions. We consider isolated as well as tidally truncated clusters. Our results are compared to those obtained from approximate, self-similar analytic solutions, from direct numerical integrations of the Fokker-Planck equation, and from direct N-body integrations performed on a GRAPE-4 special-purpose computer with N=16384. In all cases we find excellent agreement with other methods, establishing our new code as a robust tool for the numerical study of globular cluster dynamics using a realistic number of stars.
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Spin-up and mass-gain in hyperbolic encounters of spinning black holes
Scattering black holes gain spin and mass by absorbing emitted gravitational radiation, with spin-up up to 0.3 and mass gain up to 15% in near-threshold encounters.