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KITP: fresh blood

By catdynamics on February 23, 2009.

New week, and a new set of topics for us to contemplate.
This week we hear from the grad students, who will tell us what it is they have actually been doing all this time, scientifically...

Tom is here! For a flying visit.
We may go post-Newtonian, and we may meander back through stellar evolution for a bit.

So - where, cosmologically, and when, do globulars form?
Is the mass-metallicity relation for galaxies a clue? Should we look to dwarf galaxies with masses less than 1010 solar masses as cites for most or all of globular formation? How long can we delay globular formation?

How dense are the clusters initially, why is there not a mass-radius relation for globulars, like there ought to be.
Why don't proto-globulars just make black holes directly at their center, or do they...

how long can I keep up with the rather rapid and rapidly changing discussion?

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So, basically you are going to be looking into the stimulus package that preceded globular cluster formation? Nice.

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