Globular Clusters - what drives the evolution of the mass function?
Mark Gieles take is online here
Mike Fall's preceding talk on the subject is not available online. Should have been there...
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it is extragalactic day here at KITP
this could get exciting, if you like that sort of thing
unsolved problems in dynamical evolution, and why they are interesting...
for the five people who care.
This afternoon we tackle colour: red and blue, again...
All our data belongs to M87
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so we have an east coaster telling us about actual data
on x-ray binaries
in clusters, globular clusters
in other galaxies...
there is an open-to-the-program-members blog over on the cluster09 wikispace.
It has some good summary of yesterdays in depth discussion on runaway…
we go back in time, to when the universe was young
and ponder when the globulars got made, how, why and why some are blue and some are red but very few are greenish
and we learn the globular cluster formation is not transitive
hah, and some people are impressed with mere non-commutation relations…
Today we step back and Hans runs The Big Questions past us.
It is always good to think about the Big Picture.
The Big Questions
Most likely scenario for cluster formation:
a) compressed/triggered initial conditions: cloud collisions or intersecting shells, or
b) did globular clusters form as…