Star Clusters Saas-Fee Advanced Course 28 Lecture Notes 1998 Swiss S
Star clusters are at the heart of astronomy, being key objects for our understanding of stellar evolution and galactic structure. Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and other modern equipment have revealed fascinating new facts about these galac
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Star Clusters Saas-Fee Advanced Course 28 Lecture Notes 1998 Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy Edited by L. Labhardt and B. Binggeli With 204 Figures and 25 Tables
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Professor Bruce W. Carney Department of Physics and Astronomy University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255, USA
Professor William E. Harris Department of Physics and Astronomy McMaster University Hamilton ON L8S 4M1, Canada
Volume Editors: Dr. Lukas Labhardt Dr. Bruno Binggeli Astronomisches Institut Universitat Basel Venusstrasse 7 4102 Binningen, Switzerland
This series is edited on behalf of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy: Societe Suisse d'Astrophysique et d'Astronomic Observatoire de Geneve, ch. des Maillettes 51, CH-1290 Sauverny, Switzerland
Cover picture: (Left) Palomar 2, a globular cluster about 25 kiloparsec from the Sun in the outer halo of the Milky Way. (Right) A globular cluster in the halo of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128, 3900 kiloparsec from the Milky Way (see Harris, p. 225)
ISBN 3-540-67646-5 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Pubhcation Data applied for. Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Star clusters : with 25 tables / Saas Fee Advanced Course 28. B. W. Carney; W. E. Harris. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. Ed, by L. Labhardt and B. Binggeli. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York; Barcelona; Hong Kong; London; Milan; Paris; Singapore; Tokyo: Springer, 2001 (Saas Fee Advanced Courses ; 28) (Physics and astronomy online library) ISBN 3-540-67646-5 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH ® Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001 Printed in Germany The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: Camera-ready copy from authors/editors Cover design: design & production GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper SPIN 10769931 55/3141/xo - 5 4 3 2 1 0
Preface
Each year, the Swiss Society of Astrophysics and Astronomy (SSAA) organizes an Advanced Course on an astron
