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Globular Clusters - Guides to Galaxies

Proceedings of the Joint ESO-FONDAP Workshop on Globular Clusters held in Concepción, Chile, 6-10 March 2006

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Tom Richtler

    1. Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

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  2. Søren Larsen

    1. Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  • Comprehensive coverage of the field of Globular Cluster astrophysics and its relevance for galaxy formation and evolution
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: ESO Astrophysics Symposia (ESO)

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Table of contents (106 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-8
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  2. Open Questions in the Globular Cluster – Galaxy Connection

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Open Questions in the Globular Cluster – Galaxy Connection

      • Markus Kissler-Patig
      Pages 1-8

  3. Detailed Studies of Individual Globular Clusters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Detailed Chemical Abundances of Extragalactic Globular Clusters

      • Rebecca Bernstein, Andrew McWilliam
      Pages 11-15

    3. Spectroscopic Abundances and Radial Velocities of the Galactic Globular Clusters 2MASS GC01 and 2MASS GC02: Preliminary Results

      • J. Borissova, V.D. Ivanov, A. Stephens, D. Minniti
      Pages 17-19

    4. Abundance Anomalies in Galactic Globular Clusters – Looking for the Stellar Culprits

      • C. Charbonnel, N. Prantzos
      Pages 21-24

    5. Globular Clusters in the Direction of the Inner Galaxy

      • J. Alonso-García, M. Mateo
      Pages 25-26

    6. Globular Cluster Research with Astronomical Archives

      • Carol A. Christian
      Pages 27-28

    7. Super-He-Rich Populations in Globular Clusters

      • Chul Chung, Young-Wook Lee, Suk-Jin Yoon, Seok-Joo Joo, Sang-Il Han
      Pages 29-30

    8. Testing the BH 176 and Berkeley 29 Association with GASS/Monoceros

      • Peter M. Frinchaboy
      Pages 31-32

    9. New Yonsei-Yale (Y 2) Isochrones and Horizontal-Branch Evolutionary Tracks with Helium Enhancements

      • S.-I. Han, Y.-C. Kim, Y.-W. Lee, S.K. Yi, D.-G. Kim, P. Demarque
      Pages 33-34

    10. Search for Candle Stars in Globular Clusters: Spectroscopic Analysis of Post-AGB Candidates

      • G. Jasniewicz, M. Parthasarathy
      Pages 35-36

    11. The Lack of Binaries Among Hot Horizontal Branch Stars: M80 and NGC5986

      • C. Moni Bidin, S. Moehler, G. Piotto, Y. Momany, A. Recio-Blanco, R.A. Méndez
      Pages 37-38

    12. Semi-Empirical Determination of the Mass Distribution of Horizontal Branch Stars in M3

      • A. Valcarce, M. Catelan
      Pages 39-40

  4. The Most Massive Clusters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Globular Clusters, Galactic Nuclei and Supermassive Black Holes

      • Patrick Côté
      Pages 43-50

    3. UCDs – A Mixed Bag of Objects

      • Michael Hilker
      Pages 51-58

    4. Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters: A Review of Their Spatial and Dynamical Properties

      • M.J. Drinkwater, E. Evstigneeva, P. Firth, C. Power
      Pages 59-62

    5. The Maximum Mass of Star Clusters

      • M. Gieles, S.S Larsen, M.R. Haas, R.A. Scheepmaker, N. Bastian
      Pages 63-67
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About this book

The principal question of whether and how globular clusters can contribute to a better understanding of galaxy formation and evolution is perhaps the main driving force behind the overall endeavour of studying globular cluster systems. Naturally, this splits up into many individual problems. The objective of the Joint ESO-FONDAP Workshop on Globular Clusters - Guides to Galaxies was to bring together researchers, both observational and theoretical, to present and discuss the most recent results. Topics covered in these proceedings are: internal dynamics of globular clusters and interaction with host galaxies (tidal tails, evolution of cluster masses), accretion of globular clusters, detailed descriptions of nearby cluster systems, ultracompact dwarfs, formations of massive clusters in mergers and elsewhere, the ACS Virgo survey, galaxy formation and globular clusters, dynamics and kinematics of globular cluster systems and dark matter-related problems.
With its wide coverage of the topic, this book constitutes a valuable reference of the scientific knowledge of the field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

    Tom Richtler

  • Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Søren Larsen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Globular Clusters - Guides to Galaxies

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Joint ESO-FONDAP Workshop on Globular Clusters held in Concepción, Chile, 6-10 March 2006

  • Editors: Tom Richtler, Søren Larsen

  • Series Title: ESO Astrophysics Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76961-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-76960-6Published: 18 December 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09565-8Published: 21 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-76961-3Published: 23 November 2008

  • Series ISSN: 1431-2433

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-6143

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 456

  • Number of Illustrations: 189 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

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