Qualitative features of disintegrating few-body systems
Lifetime: tens of crossing times (Tcr = GMtot 5/2 / E0 3/2)
Encounters cause energy redistiribution: tight subsystems and escapers
Remnant binaries consists of most massive bodies („dynamical biasing“), rel. high eccentricity
Escapers are single, and less massive
Formation of very close binaries rare
Higher-order systems are hierarchically organized