Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-5wvtr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-16T19:45:05.189Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Open, Massive and Globular Clusters — Part of the Same Family?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Søren S. Larsen
Søren S. Larsen*
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Populations of young star clusters show significant differences even among “normal” disk galaxies. In this contribution I discuss how properties of young cluster systems are related to those of their host galaxies, based on a recent study of clusters in a sample of 22 nearby spiral galaxies. Luminous young clusters similar to the “super” star clusters observed in starbursts and mergers exist in several of these galaxies, and it is found that the luminosity of the brightest star cluster as well as the specific luminosity of the cluster systems both correlate well with the host galaxy star formation rate. When considering star clusters in different environments the traditional distinction between “open”, “massive” and “globular” clusters breaks down, underscoring the need for a universal physical description of cluster formation.

Type
Part 3. Super Star Clusters and Associations
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 207: Extragalactic Star Clusters , 2002 , pp. 421 - 427
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002 

References

Arp, H. & Sandage, A. 1985, AJ, 90, 24 Google Scholar
Harris, W. E. & Pudritz, R. E. 1994, ApJ, 429, 177 Google Scholar
Hodge, P. W. 1961, ApJ, 133, 413 Google Scholar
Kennicutt, R. C. 1998, ARA&A, 36, 189 Google Scholar
Kennicutt, R. C. & Chu, Y.-H. 1988, AJ, 95, 720 Google Scholar
Larsen, S. S., & Richtler, T. 1999, A&A, 345, 59 Google Scholar
Larsen, S. S., & Richtler, T. 2000, A&A, 354, 836 Google Scholar
Larsen, S. S. 2000, MNRAS, 319, 893 Google Scholar
O'Connell, R. W., Gallagher, J. S. III, Hunter, D. A. 1994, AJ, 433, 65 Google Scholar
Rand, R. J., Lord, S. D., Higdon, J. L. 1999, ApJ, 513, 720 Google Scholar
Sandage, A. 1978, AJ, 83, 904 Google Scholar
Schmidt-Kaler, T. 1967, AJ, 72, 526 Google Scholar
van den Bergh, S. 1971, A&A, 12, 474 Google Scholar
van den Bergh, S. 1979, ApJ, 230, 95 Google Scholar
van den Bergh, S., Lafontaine, A. 1984, AJ, 89, 1822 Google Scholar
Whitmore, B. C. & Schweizer, F. 1995, AJ, 109, 960 Google Scholar
Wilson, C. D., Scoville, N., Madden, S. C., Charmandaris, V. 2000, ApJ, 542, 120 Google Scholar
Wyder, T. K., Hodge, P. W. & Cole, A. 2000, PASP, 112, 594 Google Scholar