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Description:
Topics to be addressed include:
Star cluster formation in its entirety ranging from short-lived, low-density OB associations to open clusters, rich populous clusters, and to very massive, dense super star clusters, the possible progenitors of today's globular clusters. Star cluster formation in all possible environments including low-mass dwarf galaxies, irregular and spiral galaxies, starburst galaxies, interacting and merging galaxies or galaxies that suffered such events on a large scale in the past, isolated ellipticals and ellipticals in galaxy cluster environments. The preconditions for cluster formation as a function of environment and external influences, questions of variations of the initial mass function, the question of the existence and length of a period of preferred globular cluster formation, cluster life times and destruction mechanisms. The use of star clusters, especially globular clusters, to study galaxy formation and evolution, galaxy dynamics, and the distance scale.
Date received: October 10, 2000
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