The state of globular clusters at birth – II. Primordial binaries

In this paper, we constrain the properties of primordial binary populations in Galactic globular clusters. Using the mocca Monte Carlo code for cluster evolution, our simulations cover three decades in present-day total cluster mass. Our results are compared to the observations of Milone et al. using the photometric binary populations as proxies for the true underlying distributions, in order to test the hypothesis that the data are consistent …