Star Clusters - Course Content
Systems of star clusters (APOD40616):
-->> cluster age and mass distributions, formation/evolution/observational-biases interplay
Cluster age and mass estimates from their integrated photometry
--> introduction to stellar population synthesis models
Cluster dynamical evolution - Gas-free evolution
(SDSS web site):
-->> clusters lose stars and eventually dissolve
From gas-embedded clusters to gas-free ones
(APOD120715,
APOD120903 ):
-->> expulsion of residual star-forming gas and consequences
Formation of star clusters
(MNRAS web site):
-->> Modelling of star cluster formation, concept of star formation efficiency per freefall time, gas density-probability distribution functions
Colour-magnitude diagrams
(HST web site):
-->> cluster age estimates for the resolved stellar-population case, kinematic-based "cleansing" of cluster CMDs