The MODEST questions: Challenges and future directions in stellar cluster research
Författare
Summary, in English
We present a review of some of the current major challenges in stellar cluster research, including young clusters, globular clusters, and galactic nuclei. Topics considered include: primordial mass segregation and runaway mergers, expulsion of gas from clusters, the production of stellar exotica seen in some clusters (e.g., blue stragglers and extreme horizontal-branch stars), binary populations within clusters, the black-hole population within stellar clusters, the final parsec problem, stellar dynamics around a massive black hole, and stellar collisions. The Modest Questions posed here are the outcome of discussions which took place at the Modest-6A workshop held in Lund, Sweden, in December, 2005. Modest-6A was organised as part of the activities of the Modest Collaboration (see www.manybody.org for further details).
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2006
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
201-214
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
New Astronomy
Volym
12
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Nyckelord
- open clusters and associations : general
- galaxy : centre
- methods : numerical
- globular clusters : general
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1384-1092