Dynamics of Young Star Clusters and Associations Saas-Fee Advanced C
Where do most stars (and the planetary systems that surround them) in the Milky Way form? What determines whether a young star cluster remains bound (such as an open or globular cluster), or disperses to join the field stars in the disc of the Galaxy? The
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Cathie J. Clarke Robert D. Mathieu I. Neill Reid
Dynamics of Young Star Clusters and Associations
Saas-Fee Advanced Course 42
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Dynamics of Young Star Clusters and Associations Saas-Fee Advanced Course 42 Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy Edited by Cameron P.M. Bell, Laurent Eyer and Michael R. Meyer
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Volume Editors Cathie J. Clarke Institute for Astronomy University of Cambridge Cambridge UK
Cameron P.M. Bell Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Rochester Rochester, NY USA
Robert D. Mathieu Department of Astronomy University of Wisconsin Madison, WI USA
Laurent Eyer Department of Astronomy University of Geneva
I. Neill Reid Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, MD USA
Michael R. Meyer Institute for Astronomy ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland
Sauverny Switzerland
This Series is edited on behalf of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy: Société Suisse d’Astrophysique et d’Astronomie Observatoire de Genève, ch. des Maillettes 51, CH-1290 Sauverny, Switzerland Cover illustration: The Orion Nebula Cluster, hosting several thousand stars and substellar objects, is the richest aggregate of young stars within 1500 light years (about 500 parsecs), and can be found within the ‘sword’ region of its eponymous constellation. CREDIT: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team. ISSN 1861-7980 Saas-Fee Advanced Course ISBN 978-3-662-47289-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-47290-3
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