Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters - Confrontation of Theory and Observations: Confrontation of Theory and Observations -proceedings of the 174th ... Astronomical Union Symposia, 174) - Hardcover

 
9780792340690: Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters - Confrontation of Theory and Observations: Confrontation of Theory and Observations -proceedings of the 174th ... Astronomical Union Symposia, 174)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0792340698 ISBN 13: 9780792340690
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

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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Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0792340698
ISBN 13 
9780792340690
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
424
Editor
Hut Piet, Makino Junichiro

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