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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lançon, Ariane.

Boily, Christian M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stars--Clusters--Congresses.

Stars.

Stars--Clusters.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

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

The 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

The Hyades in the Light of Hipparcos / P.G. Prada Moroni, V. Castellani, S. Degl'Innocenti, L. Lindegren 175

Section IV The Interplay between Stellar Evolution and Cluster Evolution

Collisions in Compact Star Clusters / S.F. Portegies Zwart 181

The 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 The Evolution of Cluster Distributions

The 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

The 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

The 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1583810420

OCLC:

44993105