The lives and deaths of star clusters near the Galactic center

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 565, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 265-279

  Portegies Zwart, Simon F ^a   Making, Junichiro ^b   McMillan, Stephen L W ^c   Hut, Piet ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Blue stragglers; Globular clusters: general; Open clusters and associations: individual (Arches, Quintuplet cluster); Stars: evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041730956     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324141     Document Type: Article

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