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EAS Publications Series
Volume 80-81, 2016
Stellar Clusters: Benchmarks of Stellar Physics and Galactic Evolution - EES2015
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| Page(s) | 5 - 37 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1680002 | |
| Published online | 18 November 2016 | |
E. Moraux, Y. Lebreton and C. Charbonnel (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 80–81 (2016) 5-37
Young Massive Clusters: Their Population Properties, Formation and Evolution, and Their Relation to the Ancient Globular Clusters
Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
This review summarises the main properties of Young Massive Clusters (YMCs), including their population properties, particularly focusing on extragalactic cluster samples. We discuss potential biases and caveats that can affect the construction of cluster samples and how incompleteness effects can result in erroneous conclusions regarding the long term survival of clusters. In addition to the luminosity, mass and age distributions of the clusters, we discuss the size distribution and profile evolution of the clusters. We also briefly discuss the stellar populations within YMCs. The final part of the review focusses on the connections between YMCs and the ancient globular clusters, whether or not they are related objects and how we can use what we know about YMC formation and evolution to understand how GCs formed in the early universe and how they relate to galaxy formation/evolution.
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