Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. Thesis by Peking University
- Focuses on open questions of stellar populations in star clusters, providing a series of striking discoveries which offer deep insights into this topic
- Offers knowledge of stellar populations to help readers better understand the formation and evolution of star clusters and their member stars
- Proposes prospects and feasible projects of solving the problem of multiple stellar populations in star clusters
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Star Formation, Evolution and Stellar Populations in Star Clusters
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Researches on Stellar Populations in Massive Star Clusters
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Not-So-Simple Stellar Populations in Massive Star Clusters, Where Do We Stand?
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About this book
This book focuses on understanding the stellar populations of massive star clusters and aims to investigate the origin, evolution and properties of binary systems, their collision products, as well as the general characteristics (e.g. ages, metal content) of stellar population(s) in star clusters. It introduces the basic background knowledge of various stellar populations in star clusters as well as their formation, interaction and evolution and offers high impact observational results on our understanding of the formation and evolution mode of star clusters. Based on these discoveries, this book proposes a series of future projects that can shed light on these topics. The research introduced in this book reveals key features of star clusters formation and by extension how all stars formed in our universe.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Chengyuan Li obtained his Ph.D degree in astronomy and astrophysics from the Department of Astronomy of Peking University in July 2015. His research focuses on stellar populations in star clusters, which involves the subjects of binaries, blue straggler stars and star formations in star clusters. He subsequently won a project research fellow in Purple Mountain Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences. In Oct. 2015, he won the Macquarie Research Fellowship at Macquarie University, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Not-So-Simple Stellar Populations in Star Clusters
Authors: Chengyuan Li
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5681-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5680-2Published: 28 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5461-8Published: 12 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5681-9Published: 19 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 132
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles