2nd Users' Conference of IT4Innovations

Session

Keynote II

7 Nov 2018, 13:00

atrium (IT4Innovations)

Presentation materials

Wünsch Richard: Origin of globular clusters: star formation in the most extreme conditions

41. Origin of globular clusters: star formation in the most extreme conditions

Dr Richard Wunsch (Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)

07/11/2018, 13:00

Users' talks

User's talk

Globular clusters (GCs) are very massive spherically symmetric objects consisting of $10^5$ - $10^6$ stars concentrated within a radius of several parsecs. There are approximately 150 GCs in our Galaxy, distributed in a spherical galactic halo. Until recently, it has been believed that they are simple systems consisting of a single generation of stars with the same age and chemical...