Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys

The symposium "Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys" was held in Lisbon on Sep 9-10 during the JENAM 2010. It served as a platform for discussing what and how recent, on-going and planned large-area ground-based and space-based surveys can contribute to producing a major leap in this research field, which has a strong European history.

Scientific topics addressed included:

. Cluster searches . Clustered vs. isolated star formation, large-scale star formation, enrichment of the field population . Structure, populations and evolution of the Milky Way . Cluster dynamics (internal and within the Milky Way) . Variability of stars in clusters (from time-resolved surveys) . Analysis techniques for large samples . Archiving

This proceedings book provides a snapshot of the ongoing discussion on the role of large surveys in star cluster research, and serves as a reference volume for the state-of-the art in the field.

Klappentext

The symposium Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys was held in Lisbon on Sep 9-10 during the JENAM 2010. It served as a platform for discussing what and how recent, on-going and planned large-area ground-based and space-based surveys can contribute to producing a major leap in this research field, which has a strong European history.

Scientific topics addressed included:

• Cluster searches
• Clustered vs. isolated star formation, large-scale star formation, enrichment of the field population
• Structure, populations and evolution of the Milky Way
• Cluster dynamics (internal and within the Milky Way)
• Variability of stars in clusters (from time-resolved surveys)
• Analysis techniques for large samples
• Archiving

This proceedings book provides a snapshot of the ongoing discussion on the role of large surveys in star cluster research, and serves as a reference volume for the state-of-the art in the field.

Inhalt

Part I Recent, on-going and planned surveys. Cluster searches. Technical challenges.- Optical digital Galactic Plane surveys and star-cluster science.- Census of Milky Way Star Clusters from Infrared Surveys.- Time-resolved surveys of stellar clusters.- SDSS-III/APOGEE: Detailed Abundances of Galactic Star Clusters.- Processing Data from Large Infrared Surveys.- Properties of Star Clusters Found and Investigated by Data from Large Surveys.- Developments of the open cluster database WEBDA.- Inferring stellar properties using colours, parallaxes and an HRD prior.- AstrOmatic software in the era of large stellar photometric surveys.- Cluster parameter determinations for large datasets.- Open clusters science in the Virtual Observatory era.- GALExtin: A VO-Service for estimating Galactic interstellar extinction.- YSO clusters on galactic infrared loops.- VVV Search for New Young Clusters Towards the Star Forming Regions in our Galaxy. First Results.- New MilkyWay star cluster candidates from DSS and 2MASS.- VVV study of the young Milky Way star clusters: Mercer 35, 69 and 70.- Part II Star formation & evolution. The MilkyWay and beyond.- Optical surveys of young open clusters.- Probing the low-mass end of the IMF in star-forming regions: a WIRCam/CFHT Survey.- Dynamics in the embedded phase: accretion, collisions, contraction.- Unraveling the initial conditions of star formation in Serpens North.- Do All Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood Form in Clusters?.- Uncertainties in the Age Scale for Young Open Clusters and Moving Groups.- Are there age spreads in star forming regions?.- The relevance of X-ray surveys for the study of the properties of young open clusters.- Chandra observations of Cygnus OB2.- Young massive stellar clusters in the Milky Way: the Cl1813-178 and GLIMPSE 9 clusters.- Multiple populations in Globular Clusters: The role of AGB and super-AGB stars.- Chemical properties of the open cluster population.- Deep and extended multiband photometry of the Galactic globular cluster M71.- Chromospheric activity and Lithium abundance in NGC2516.- A deep photometric survey of the double cluster h & c Per.- A detailed spectroscopic analysis of the open cluster NGC 5460.- A kinematic study of open clusters: implications for origin.- The Luminosity Function of Globular Clusters Used as a Distance Indicator.- Chemical properties of the Hipparcos red clump.- Chemical composition of a kinematically identified stellar group in the MilkyWay.- Star Disk Interaction in T Tauri Stars: Analysis of the MgII Lines.- Indication of Mass Segregation in LMC Star Clusters.- Carbon and nitrogen as tracers of stellar evolution in red clump stars of open clusters.- Observations of the IMF in clusters.- Dynamical evolution of rotating globular clusters with embedded black holes.- Stellar populations in the super star clusters NGC 3603 and 30 Doradus.- Dynamical Expansion of Star Clusters.- The Metallicity Gradient in the Galactic Disk Revealed by Cepheids and Open Clusters.- Spitzer's view of NGC2264's circumstellar disk population.- Super star clusters in IR-luminous interacting galaxies: the NIR luminosity function.- Populations of Variable Stars in Open Clusters.- Tracing the structure of the Perseus Arm with IPHAS.- Setting up the T35 telescope at Sierra Nevada Observatory for detecting variable stars in open clusters.- The substellar population of the s Orionis cluster.