An Approximate Analytic Model of a Star Cluster with Potential Escapers
  In the context of a star cluster moving on a circular galactic orbit, a
"potential escaper" is a cluster star that has orbital energy greater than the
escape energy, and yet is confined within the Jacobi radius of the stellar
system. On the other hand analytic models of stellar clusters typically have a
truncation energy equal to the cluster escape energy, and therefore explicitly
exclude these energetically unbound stars. Starting from the landmark analysis
performed by Henon of periodic orbits of the circular Hill equations, we
present a numerical exploration of the population of "non-escapers", defined
here as those stars which remain within two Jacobi radii for several galactic
periods, with energy above the escape energy. We show that they can be
characterised by the Jacobi integral and two further approximate integrals,
which are based on perturbation theory and ideas drawn from Lidov-Kozai theory.
Finally we use these results to construct an approximate analytic model that
includes a phase space description of a population resembling that of potential
escapers, in addition to the usual bound population.
