Stellar Clusters are very useful laboratories for empirically studying stellar evolution. ... All cluster stars are at the same distance . All cluster stars have the same physical age . ... CM diagram Young Cluster In this case we see the Main Sequence fully represented. The blue dots represent massive stars with short main sequence lifetimes. ... Thus, identifying the most massive star which is still on the main sequence is an effective means of determining the age of a stellar cluster. ...

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FLAMES multiobject spectroscopy of low mass stars in the "twin" young clusters Ori andOri 1,2 1 3 G.G. Sacco , R. Pallavicini , S. Randich , 1 3 E. Franciosini , F. Palla 1 INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Italy 2DSFA UniversitЮ di Palermo, Italy 3 INAF ­Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy ABSTRACT Using FLAMES on VLT/UT2, we obtained spectra of 147 lowmass candidate members of the two young (~5 Myr) and coeval clusters Ori and Ori. ... Results: In Ori we identified 65 members. ...

We investigate dust production and stellar mass loss in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 362. ... We detect several cluster members near the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) that exhibit infrared excesses indicative of circumstellar dust and find that dust is not present in measurable quantities in stars below the tip of the RGB. ... The two most extreme stars, variables V2 and V16, contribute up to 45% of the total cluster dust-traced mass loss. ...

... Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24 . ... Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our Sun, making it a record holder. ... Toward the bottom of the image, stars are still forming in the associated emission nebula NGC 6357 , including several that appear to be breaking out and illuminating a spectacular cocoon . ... Publications with keywords: massive stars - star formation . ... NGC 281 . ...

... 2008 October 26 . Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24 . Credit: NASA , ESA and J. M. ApellАniz ( IAA , Spain) . Explanation: How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our Sun, making it a record holder. ... Component stars would still remain near 100 solar masses, making them among the more massive stars currently on record. ... About APOD | ...

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Astronomers have discovered a massive cluster of young galaxies forming in the distant universe. The growing galactic metropolis, named COSMOS-AzTEC3, is the most distant known massive "proto-cluster" of galaxies, lying about 12.6 billion light-years from Earth. ... The other dots in this picture are stars or galaxies that are not members of the cluster тАФ most of them are located closer to us than the cluster, but some are farther away. The two brightest spots are stars. ...

A Canadian and American team of Astronomers have used the 305-m wide Arecibo radio dish, the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope, to uncover a dozen new super-fast-spinning pulsars. The team directed their search for these rare and exotic stars by pointing the Arecibo radio telescope towards massive star clusters, called Globular Clusters, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. ... One of the most exotic residents in the Globular cluster system are the millisecond pulsars. ...

The radial distribution of metallicity of star-forming galaxies in a galaxy cluster can inform us about the mass assembly and enrichment history of the galaxy cluster. ... Both galaxy clusters are cool-core clusters at redshift z т?? ... The gas-phase metallicity of star- forming galaxies in MACS1115+01 exhibit anti-correlation with projected distance т??0.15 ТБ 0.08 dex/Mpc, whereas the radial metallicity distribution of RXJ1532+30 is statistically flat (т??0.09 ТБ 0.12 dex/Mpc). ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The projected distance of VFTS 682 to the cluster R136 is 29 pc (for an assumed LMC distance of 50 kpc). ... VFTS 682 is located in an active star-forming region, at a projected distance of 29 pc from the young massive cluster R136 in the Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud. ... Our aim is to obtain the stellar properties, such as its intrinsic luminosity, and to investigate the origin of VFTS 682. ...

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... Anisotropies in the CMB; VSA, AMI, the S-Z effect, multi-frequency galaxy cluster astrophysics, CMB foregrounds, SKA. Department address: . ... Cavendish Laboratory, . ... Cambridge CB3 0HE. Telephone: (+44) (0)1223 339242 . Fax: (+44) (0)1223 354599 . ... Cambridge CB3 OHA. Telephone: (+44) (0)1223 746428 . Fax: (+44) (0)1223 337523 . College address: . ... Cambridge CB3 9DQ. Email name : K.J.B.Grainge (email to name@mrao.cam.ac.uk) . ... Cavendish | ...

... The relationship of the mass and the observed galactocentric distance R -- (a), and that of the mass and the total dissipation velocity n taken from Gnedin, Ostriker (1997) -- (b). The dotted line in diagram (a) shows the "cone of survival" according to the paper by Surdin and Arkhipova (1998) . ... The solid line is a regression stright line for the main sequence of clusters, and the dotted line parallel to it separates the sequence of clusters of anomalously small mass shown by open triangles. ...

... Probing the Universe with galaxy clusters: New windows from new technologies . Dr Mark Bautz . ... A key to this progress has been the study of these objects using telescopes operating at millimeter, visible, infrared and X-ray wavelengths. ... His current research interests concern new X-ray imaging detector and observational studies of clusters of galaxies. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are located in external galaxies, their X-ray luminosities (10 39 - 10 41 erg/s) are thousand times greater than those of brightest black holes in the Galaxy. ULXs may be supercritical accretion disks around black holes of stellar masses (~10 Solar masses) like that in SS433, or they may be a hypothetical intermediate-mass black holes (hundreds - thousands Solar masses) with standard accretion disks. ... 2) The ULX progenitors were ejected from the star clusters. ...

The new view on the population of Galactic open clusters A.E.Piskunov1, N.V.Kharchenko2, S.RЖser3, E.Schilbach3, R.-D.Scholz4 1 2 3 4 Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia Main Astronomical ... Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany What are open clusters and what do they teach us Groups of Population I ... Cluster complexes: OCC-1 = Gould's Belt cluster complex? ...

... Since IRS 7 at the Galactic center was identified as a luminous red supergiant (Lebofsky et al. 1982), a lasting debate has been initiated whether the nucleus of the Milky Way galaxy had experienced a recent star formation episode. ... 1993). ... 1994). ... Tamblyn & Rieke (1993) and Schaerer (1994) proposed starburst models which would be able to account for a young stellar population at the Galactic center, although the origin of some peculiar hot stars still remains to be explained (Tamblyn et al...

. To see a Russian version of this page click here . (Senior Researcher. Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU) in 1982, Ph.D. 1986, MSU) . A member of EAS and IAU. Fields of interest: hot massive stars, close binary systems: optical photometric and spectral observations, X-ray observations; ill-posed problems, X-ray astrophysics. My publications (ADS link) . Linux on CLEVO 8750 (old stuff) . Phones/addresses of my university mates graduated in 1982. E-mail: igor@sai.msu.ru .