New elements in old tools: Nucleosynthesis in N-body codes

The main scientific goal of this project is to unravel for the first time the stellar assembly history of our Galaxy using an accurate dynamical and chemical approach. Of particular importance is to identify the early dissolution events of primordial stellar clusters and the overall impact on the chemical evolution of the Galaxy. We will do this by adding detailed nucleosynthesis models into the current state-of-the-art N-body code NBODY6. In this way we will obtain accurate predictions for the chemical evolution of the Galaxy and the evolution of stellar clusters, particularly the change of surface abundances from non-standard evolution, aspects which will be a novel implementation in the field.