The MODEST questions: Challenges and future directions in stellar cluster research

New Astronomy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 201-214

  Davies, Melvyn B ^a   Amaro Seoane, Pau ^b   Bassa, Cees ^c   Dale, Jim ^d   De Angeli, Francesca ^e   Freitag, Marc ^e   Kroupa, Pavel ^f   Mackey, Dougal ^e   Miller, M Coleman ^g,h   Portegies Zwart, Simon ⁱ  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^g University of Maryland   (United States)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Galaxy: centre; Globular clusters: general; Methods: numerical; Open clusters and associations: general

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; GALAXIES; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES;

BINARY POPULATIONS; GALAXY CENTERS; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS; MASS SEGREGATION;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 33751224175     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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