Secular dynamics of binaries in stellar clusters - II. Dynamical evolution
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Dense stellar clusters are natural sites for the origin and evolution of
exotic objects such as relativistic binaries (potential gravitational wave
sources), blue stragglers, etc. We investigate the secular dynamics of a binary
system driven by the global tidal field of an axisymmetric stellar cluster in
which the binary orbits. In a companion paper (Hamilton & Rafikov 2019a) we
developed a general Hamiltonian framework describing such systems. The
effective (doubly-averaged) Hamiltonian derived there encapsulates all
information about the tidal potential experienced by the binary in its orbit
around the cluster in a single parameter
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1365-2966
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STFC (1936363)