The fingerprint of primordial mass segregation on the tidal tails of star clusters

arXiv:2607.01331 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-01 · Read on arXiv

S. Mojtaba Ghasemi, Hosein Haghi, Mohammad Mansoury, Akram Hasani Zonoozi, Pouriya Miri, Pavel Kroupa

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-01

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Mass Segregation — 21× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• N-body simulations — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cluster expansion — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Homogenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences — 1× in this paper
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Tidal tails of open clusters

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