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Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters - Confrontation of Theory and Observations

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This volume reviews recent progress in the study of dynamics of star clusters. The meeting focused on the enormous progress of both the observation and the theoretical modeling of star clusters. New results from the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope (HST) include the mass function down to the hydrogen burning limits, white dwarf sequence, and central density profiles of `post-collapse' clusters by star counts. On the theoretical side, this symposium saw the first direct evidence of gravothermal oscillation through N-body simulation, which was made possible by GRAPE-4, the dedicated special-purpose computer for N-body simulation. Numerical techniques to combine stellar evolution and dynamical evolution of the cluster were presented.
The book will be of primary interest to astrophysicists.

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This volume reviews recent progress in the study of dynamics of star clusters. New results from the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope (HST) include the mass function down to the hydrogen burning limits, white dwarf sequence, and central density profiles of `post-collapse' clusters by star counts.

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Assisted by Piet Hut (Editor), Pie Hut (Editor), Makino (Editor), Makino (Editor), Junichiro Makino (Editor)
Publisher Springer Netherlands
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 26.06.2009
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy
 
EAN 9780792340690
ISBN 978-0-7923-4069-0
Pages 406
Illustrations XVIII, 406 p.
Dimensions (packing) 16 x 24 cm
Weight (packing) 780 g
 
Series International Astronomical Union Symposia > Vol.174
International Astronomical Union Symposia > 174
 

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