Research Catalog

Title

Massive stellar clusters : proceedings of a workshop held in Strasbourg, France, 8-11 November, 1999 / edited by Ariane Lançon and Christian M. Boily.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif., USA : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lançon, Ariane.
• Boily, Christian M.

Description

xvi, 330 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 211

Uniform Title

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 211.

Subject

• Stars > Clusters > Congresses
• 39.41 extragalactic systems
• Stars > Clusters
• Sterrenclusters
• STARS
• GALACTIC CLUSTERS
• STELLAR FORMATION
• CONFERENCES
• Étoiles > Amas

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congresses (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Section I Massive Stellar Clusters as Stellar Laboratories -- Young Star Clusters: Metallicities, Ages and Masses / U. Fritze -- v. Alvensleben 3 -- Dynamical Masses, Time-scales and Evolution of Star Clusters / O. Gerhard 12 -- Evolution of the Interstellar Medium Around Young Stellar Clusters / D. Calzetti, C.A. Tremonti, T.M. Heckman, C. Leitherer 25 -- Stochastic Fluctuations in the Spectrophotometric Properties of Star Clusters / A. Lancon, M. Mouhcine 34 -- Section II Observed Cluster Distributions -- Massive Clusters in the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds / J.-C. Mermilliod 43 -- Star Clusters in Spiral Galaxies / P. Jablonka 49 -- Massive Clusters in Hubble Sequence Galaxies: Ellipticals / M. Kissler-Patig 55 -- Massive Star Clusters in Dwarf Starburst Galaxies / G. Ostlin 63 -- Massive Stellar Clusters in Interacting Galaxies / B.W. Miller 71 -- Section III Stellar Population Studies -- IIIa Young Clusters -- Star Clusters and the Duration of Starbursts / G.R. Meurer 81 -- Properties of Young Clusters in M82 / L.J. Smith, J.S. Gallagher, III 90 -- Near-Infrared Properties of Four Young Star Clusters in NGC 4038/39 / S. Mengel, M.D. Lehnert, N. Thatte, R. Genzel 96 -- NIRSPEC Spectroscopy of a Massive Obscured Star Cluster in the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/4039) / A.M. Gilbert, J.R. Graham, I.S. McLean, E.E. Becklin, J.E. Larkin, M.K. Wilcox, D.F. Figer, N.A. Levenson, H.I. Teplitz 101 -- Evolution of Rotating Massive Stars into the Wolf-Rayet Phase at Solar Metallicity / G. Meynet 105 -- Super Star Clusters as Probes of Massive Star Evolution and the IMF at Extreme Metallicities / D. Schaerer, N.G. Guseva, Y.I. Izotov 113 -- Stellar Populations in the Nucleus of NGC 6764 / A. Eckart, E. Schinnerer 120 -- Young Populous Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds / S. Keller, M.S. Bessell, G.S. Da Costa 124 -- IIIb Intermediate Age Clusters -- Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6553: Observations with HST's WFPC2, STIS and NICMOS / S.F. Beaulieu, G.F. Gilmore, R.A. Johnson, S.J. Smartt, N. Tanvir, B. Santiago 128 -- Broad-Band Colour Evolution of Star Clusters / L. Girardi 133 -- Infrared and Millimetre Studies of Red Supergiants in OB Associations / E. Josselin, J.A.D.L. Blommaert, M.A.T. Groenewegen, A. Omont 140 -- Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars in Interacting Galaxy Globular Clusters / M. Mouhcine, A. Lancon 144 -- Planetary Nebulae in Clusters / J. Koppen, A. Acker 151 -- IIIc Old Clusters -- Age Dating Old Globular Clusters in Early-type Galaxies / M. Kissler-Patig 157 -- Age Determinations of Individual Cluster Stars / A. Weiss, H. Schlattl 165 -- Puzzling Theoretical Scenario for Low Mass He Burning Stars in Open Clusters / S. Degl'Innocenti, V. Castellani, L. Girardi, M. Marconi, P.G. Prada Moroni, A. Weiss 169 -- Hyades in the Light of Hipparcos / P.G. Prada Moroni, V. Castellani, S. Degl'Innocenti, L. Lindegren 175 -- Section IV Interplay between Stellar Evolution and Cluster Evolution -- Collisions in Compact Star Clusters / S.F. Portegies Zwart 181 -- Impact of Rotation on Cluster Dynamics / C.M. Boily 190 -- Dynamics of Dense Stellar Clusters: Binary Black Holes in Galactic Centres / M. Hemsendorf 197 -- Unequal-mass Gaseous Models of Globular Clusters with Stellar Evolution / S. Deiters, R. Spurzem 204 -- Stellar Dynamics and Gas Expulsion / S. Goodwin, F. Pearce, P. Thomas 211 -- Mass Segregation in Star Clusters / G. Meylan 215 -- Section V Evolution of Cluster Distributions -- Nature of Nuclear Star Clusters in Spiral Galaxies / T. Boker 227 -- Stellar Dynamics of Young Star Clusters / P. Kroupa 233 -- Could Merged Star Clusters Build Up a Small Galaxy? / M. Fellhauer, P. Kroupa 241 -- HST Images of Stephan's Quintet: Star Cluster Candidates in a Compact Group Environment / S.C. Gallagher, S.D. Hunsberger, J.C. Charlton, D. Zaritsky 247 -- Clusters in Stephan's Quintet: Constraints on Tidal Dwarf Formation / S.D. Hunsberger, S.C. Gallagher, J.C. Charlton, D. Zaritsky 254 -- Patterns of Super Star Cluster Formation in 'Clumpy' Starburst Galaxies / J.S. Gallagher, III, N.L. Homeier, C.J. Conselice, the WFPC-2 Investigation Definition Team 258 -- Star Clusters in Local Group Galaxies--Impact of Environment on Their Evolution and Survival / E.K. Grebel 262 -- Euler, Hipparcos and the Five Dwarfs: Reconstructing Star Formation Histories in the Local Group / D. Valls-Gabaud, X. Hernandez, G. Gilmore 270 -- Constraints on Cluster Formation from Old Globular Cluster Systems / D.E. McLaughlin 281 -- Formation of Galaxies, the Formation of Old Globular Clusters and the Link with High-Redshift Objects / D. Burgarella, M. Kissler-Patig, V. Buat 288 -- Section VI Observations and Outlook -- Interstellar Medium of Young Stellar Clusters from the Mid-Infrared Point of View / S.C. Madden 297 -- Sub-millimetre and Millimetre Studies / E. Josselin 305 -- A few General Remarks from the Final Discussion / J.S. Gallagher, III, E.K. Grebel, P. Kroupa, D. McLaughlin, H. Zinnecker, S.F. Portegies Zwart 310.

ISBN

• 1583810420
• 9781583810422

LCCN

00104866

OCLC

• ocm44993105
• 44993105
• SCSB-1142293

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library