Young and intermediate-age massive star clusters

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1913, 2010, Pages 867-887

  Larsen, Søren S ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Galaxies: star clusters; Globular clusters: general; Open clusters and associations

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; DISSOLUTION; METAL RECOVERY;

CLUSTER MASS; EXTERNAL SHOCKS; GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS; GAS DENSITY; GIANT MOLECULAR CLOUDS; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS: GENERAL; LOW-MASS; MASSIVE STARS; MILKY WAYS; MOLECULAR GAS; ON TIME; OPEN CLUSTERS; OPEN CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATIONS; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; STAR CLUSTERS; STAR FORMATIONS; STARBURST GALAXIES; VIOLENT STAR FORMATION;

GALAXIES;

EID: 76949088740     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0255     Document Type: Review

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