Globular Clusters (Cambridge Contemporary Astrophysics)

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Participants......Page 10
Group Photograph......Page 12
Preface......Page 15
Foreword......Page 17
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Photometry in Globular Clusters......Page 21
Chemical Abundances in Globular Clusters......Page 27
The Morphology of Color-Magnitude Diagrams of Globulars......Page 30
Estimating the Distances of Globular Clusters......Page 36
Luminosity Functions and Mass Functions......Page 48
Low-Mass Stars......Page 53
Appendix A......Page 56
References......Page 59
Introduction......Page 63
The Size and Shape of the Milky Way and Its Stellar Populations......Page 73
Survey of Age, Kinematical and Chemical Distributions in Stellar Populations......Page 89
Putting It All Together: Chemodynamical Pictures of Milky Way Formation......Page 117
References......Page 119
The CM Diagram: an Introduction......Page 129
Stellar Evolution Investigations: The Ingredients......Page 130
What We Know and What We do not Know......Page 138
HST: Enlarging the Evolutionary Scenario......Page 155
The Pulsational Connection......Page 159
Leaving Our Galaxy......Page 165
Final Remarks......Page 167
References......Page 168
Early Nucleosynthesis and Models of Galactic Chemical Evolution......Page 175
High Dispersion Analysis: Methods......Page 186
The Abundance Scale and Element-to Element Ratios in Globular Clusters......Page 195
Inhomogeneities in Globular Clusters......Page 204
Abundance Indices for Globular Clusters......Page 211
References......Page 219
Overview: Why Study the Dynamics of Globular Clusters?......Page 229
Evolutionary Time Scales in Globular Clusters......Page 234
Surface Brightness Profiles of Globular Clusters......Page 241
Velocity Dispersions in Globular Clusters......Page 253
Formation and Evolution of Globular Clusters in the LMC......Page 259
Acknowledgments......Page 265
References......Page 266
About Pulsating Stars......Page 271
Cepheids in Young Globular Clusters......Page 273
RR Lyrae Variables in Globular Clusters......Page 276
Mira and Semiregular (SR) Variables in Globular Clusters......Page 293
References......Page 307
Low-Mass Binary X-Ray Sources and Millisecond Pulsars......Page 313
Neutron Star Formation: Core Collapse of Massive Stars......Page 315
Neutron Star Formation: Accretion-Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs......Page 318
Binary X-Ray Sources and Millisecond Pulsars: Evolutionary Scenarios......Page 324
Neutron Star Binaries in Globular Clusters......Page 332
Origin and Evolution of Neutron Star Binaries in Globular Clusters......Page 334
Summary......Page 338
References......Page 341
Case Studies: The Milky Way GCS......Page 345
Interlude: Systemic Properties in Other Galaxies......Page 352
Case Studies: NGC 5128......Page 358
Case Studies: NGC 4472 and M87......Page 363
Case Studies: The Brightest Cluster Ellipticals......Page 367
A Brief Synthesis......Page 372
References......Page 373