Chinese and German Scholars Achieve Significant Progress in Dynamical Simulation Studies of Binary Star Clusters and Multiple Stellar Populations in Star Clusters
As the first Co-Chairs of the Silk Road Astronomy Research and Education Alliance (abbreviated as "Silk Road AREA"), Prof. Zhong-Mu Li from the Institute of Astronomy and Information, Dali University (China) and Prof. Rainer Spurzem from Heidelberg University (Germany) have been committed to advancing international astronomical cooperation. They recently achieved a groundbreaking scientific research result by successfully developing a new code named NbodyCP for dynamical simulations of binary star clusters and multiple stellar populations in star clusters.
This achievement not only realizes direct N-body simulations of binary star clusters and multiple stellar populations in star clusters, but also demonstrates that dynamical processes can form various extended cluster structures and stellar streams. Currently, the result has been officially published in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA), a top academic journal in China's astronomical field (Volume 26, Issue 1). The specific information of the paper is as follows:
Title: NbodyCP: A direct N-body simulation code for composite stellar populations of single and binary star clusters
Authors: Zhong-Mu Li, Rainer Spurzem
