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Fig. 14.

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Fraction of stars fmerger that merge with the central star in a cluster with a total stellar mass of Mstars = 104 M and a virial radius of Rv = 0.14 pc after 1 Myr (left panel), 2 Myr (middle panel), and 10 Myr (right panel) for different combinations of the number of stars N and the stellar radius Rstar calculated using our model presented in Eq. (8). We can see that when the collisions are maintained for short periods of time, that is, 1 Myr, a massive object with ∼fmergerMstars = 0.15 × 104 M = 1500 M is formed in the cluster center only when N is small (given that tdelay becomes larger than the integration time for large N) or large Rstar. If the time limit is long, that is, 10 Myr, most of the clusters will form stars with ∼0.3 Mstars = 3000 M.

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