The Lifetime and Future of Double Clusters – Why There are so Few Observed Binary Star Clusters
Binary open star clusters within the Milky Way are rare. Only 14 candidates have been confirmed with new Gaia data (Song et al. 2022). The number of binary clusters expected to form from stellar aggregates in the Milky Way is likely more than five times higher than this (Darma et al. 2021), (Kharchenko et al. 2012). Using the N-body simulation program NBODY6 we simulate two known open clusters; th
