TY - JOUR
T1 - Star clusters near and far; tracing star formation across cosmic time
AU - Adamo, Angela
AU - Zeidler, Peter
AU - Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik
AU - Chevance, Mélanie
AU - Gieles, Mark
AU - Calzetti, Daniela
AU - Charbonnel, Corinne
AU - Zinnecker, Hans
AU - Krause, Martin G. H.
N1 - © 2020 Springer-Verlag. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00690-x.
PY - 2020/6/8
Y1 - 2020/6/8
N2 - Star clusters are fundamental units of stellar feedback and unique tracers of their host galactic properties. In this review, we will first focus on their constituents, i.e.\ detailed insight into their stellar populations and their surrounding ionised, warm, neutral, and molecular gas. We, then, move beyond the Local Group to review star cluster populations at various evolutionary stages, and in diverse galactic environmental conditions accessible in the local Universe. At high redshift, where conditions for cluster formation and evolution are more extreme, we are only able to observe the integrated light of a handful of objects that we believe will become globular clusters. We therefore discuss how numerical and analytical methods, informed by the observed properties of cluster populations in the local Universe, are used to develop sophisticated simulations potentially capable of disentangling the genetic map of galaxy formation and assembly that is carried by globular cluster populations.
AB - Star clusters are fundamental units of stellar feedback and unique tracers of their host galactic properties. In this review, we will first focus on their constituents, i.e.\ detailed insight into their stellar populations and their surrounding ionised, warm, neutral, and molecular gas. We, then, move beyond the Local Group to review star cluster populations at various evolutionary stages, and in diverse galactic environmental conditions accessible in the local Universe. At high redshift, where conditions for cluster formation and evolution are more extreme, we are only able to observe the integrated light of a handful of objects that we believe will become globular clusters. We therefore discuss how numerical and analytical methods, informed by the observed properties of cluster populations in the local Universe, are used to develop sophisticated simulations potentially capable of disentangling the genetic map of galaxy formation and assembly that is carried by globular cluster populations.
KW - astro-ph.GA
U2 - 10.1007/s11214-020-00690-x
DO - 10.1007/s11214-020-00690-x
M3 - Article
SN - 0038-6308
VL - 216
JO - Space Science Reviews
JF - Space Science Reviews
M1 - 69
ER -