{
  "id": "1807.07944",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2018-07-20T17:26:07.000Z",
  "updated": "2018-07-20T17:26:07.000Z",
  "title": "The Maxwell's demon of star clusters",
  "authors": [
    "Michela Mapelli"
  ],
  "comment": "17 pages, 8 figures, Submitted Manuscript Under Review: To appear in The Impact of Binaries on Stellar Evolution, Beccari G. & Boffin H.M.J. (Eds.).\\copyright\\ 2018 Cambridge University Press",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.SR",
    "astro-ph.GA",
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "Stellar binaries are the most important energy reservoir of star clusters. Via three-body encounters, binaries can reverse the core collapse and prevent a star cluster from reaching equipartition. Moreover, binaries are essential for the formation of stellar exotica, such as blue straggler stars, intermediate-mass black holes and massive ($\\gtrsim{}30$ M$_\\odot$) black hole binaries.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2018-07-20T17:26:07.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "star cluster",
      "maxwells demon",
      "black hole binaries",
      "intermediate-mass black holes",
      "blue straggler stars"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 17,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}