The tidal tails of stellar clusters are an important tool for studying the clusters’ birth conditions, their evolution, coupling, and interaction with the...
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TalkA tale of caution: the tails of open clusters are much longer than thought, but more difficult to find
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TalkBlack holes in globular clusters
In the past few years, a series of discoveries have been made of objects which appear to be accreting stellar mass black holes in globular clusters -- both in...
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TalkChemical Cartography in the Milky Way with SDSS/APOGEE
The SDSS Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) hascollected high resolution near-IR spectra of several hundred thousand starsacross...
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TalkCosmic variance in [O/Fe] in the Galactic disk
The detection of chemical inhomogeities in the Galactic disk requires an oustanding precision in the abundance measurements and a thorough estimation of the...
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TalkDynamics I
1- Fundamental stellar dynamics - relaxation, collisionless dynamics - distribution functions, Jeans eqs, etc.
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TalkDynamics II
2- Stellar orbits and dynamical models - orbits in various potentials, Jeans Thm, DF models, Schwarzschild, M2M
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TalkDynamics III
3- Galactic disk dynamics
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TalkDynamics IV
4- The Galactic bulge - structure - dynamics - origin
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TalkDynamics V
5- The Galactic halo - mass, extent, shape - substructure, inner/outer halo