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Query: A comprehensive set of simulations of high-velocity collisions between
  main sequence stars   We report on a very large set of simulations of collisions between two main
sequence (MS) stars. These computations were done with the ``Smoothed Particle
Hydrodynamics'' method. Realistic stellar structure models for evolved MS stars
were used. In order to sample an extended domain of initial parameters space
(masses of the stars, relative velocity and impact parameter), more than 15000
simulations were carried out. We considered stellar masses ranging between 0.1
and 75 Msun and relative velocities up to a few thousands km/s. To limit the
computational burden, a resolution of 2000-30000 particles per star was used.
The primary goal of this study was to build a complete database from which the
result of any collision can be interpolated. This allows us to incorporate the
effects of stellar collisions with an unprecedented level of realism into
dynamical simulations of galactic nuclei and other dense stellar clusters. We
make the data describing the initial condition and outcome (mass and energy
loss, angle of deflection) of all our simulations freely available on the
Internet. We find that the outcome of collisions depends sensitively on the
stellar structure and that, in most cases, using polytropic models is
inappropriate. Published fitting formulas for the collision outcomes,
established from a limited set of collisions, prove of limited use because they
do not allow robust extrapolation to other stellar structures or relative
velocities.

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