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We have obtained the stellar velocity dispersion in three mutually perpendicular directions in the halos and cores of clusters as a function of time for several non-stationary open-cluster models. During the dynamical evolution of the open-cluster models, the velocity dispersions undergo oscillations that do not decay during 5–10 violent-relaxation timescales, τ vr . We estimated the time for synchronization of the rotation of the open-cluster models and their motion around the center of the Galaxy, t s , which, depending on the model parameters, is t s ≃ (5–27)τ vr . Synchronization mechanisms for the models are discussed. The disruption of the systems in the force field of the Galaxy is strongly affected by tidal friction. We have also estimated the time for the formation of a spherical stellar-velocity distribution in the cluster models, t σ ≃ (6 − 25)τ vr . The impact of instability in the stellar motions in a cluster on the formation of a spherical velocity distribution in the open-cluster models is discussed. We have noted a tendency for a weakening of the dependence of the coarse phase density of the cluster on small initial perturbations of the stellar phase coordinates in the model cluster cores for times about five times longer than the violent-relaxation time.
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Original Russian Text © V.M. Danilov, L.V. Dorogavtseva, 2008, published in Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2008, Vol. 85, No. 6, pp. 524–536.
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Danilov, V.M., Dorogavtseva, L.V. Timescales for mechanisms for the dynamical evolution of open star clusters. Astron. Rep. 52, 467–478 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772908060048
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