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Young Star Clusters: Clues to Galaxy Formation and Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Peter Anders ,
Uta Fritze-V. Alvensleben  and
Richard de Grijs
Peter Anders
Affiliation:
Universitäts-Sternwarte Göttingen, Geismarlandstrasse 11, 37083 Göttingen, Germany
Uta Fritze-V. Alvensleben
Affiliation:
Universitäts-Sternwarte Göttingen, Geismarlandstrasse 11, 37083 Göttingen, Germany
Richard de Grijs
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Sheffield, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK

Abstract

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Young clusters are observed to form in a variety of interacting galaxies and violent starbursts, a substantial number resembling the progenitors of the well-studied globular clusters in mass and size. By studying young clusters in merger remnants and peculiar galaxies, we can therefore learn about the violent star formation history of these galaxies. We present a new set of evolutionary synthesis models of our GALEV code specifically developed to include the gaseous emission of presently forming star clusters, and a new tool that allows to determine individual cluster metallicities, ages, extinction values and masses from a comparison of a large grid of model Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) with multi-color observations. First results for the newly-born clusters in NGC 1569 are presented.

Type
Part 2. Origin
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 217: Recycling Intergalactic and Interslettar Matter , 2004 , pp. 210 - 211
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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