Astrophysical: Star clusters

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    New constraints on the central mass contents of Omega Centauri from combined stellar kinematics and pulsar timing
    Aims. We performed a combined analysis of stellar kinematics with line-of-sight accelerations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) to probe the mass content of Omega...
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    Nitrogen abundances of the Be-type stars in 30 Doradus
    A sub-set of the 67 Be-type stars observed in 30 Doradus during the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS) campaign have been analysed to estimate atmospheric...
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    Nuclear star formation in the hotspot galaxy NGC 2903
    We present high-resolution near-infrared imaging obtained using adaptive optics and HST/NICMOS, and ground-based spectroscopy of the hotspot galaxy NGC 2903...
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    On ageing star clusters using red supergiants independent of the fraction of interacting binary stars
    We use the Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis models to test the recent suggestion that red supergiants can provide an accurate age estimate of a coeval...
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    On biases in the predictions of stellar population synthesis models
    Sampling fluctuations in stellar populations give rise to dispersion in observables when a small number of sources contribute effectively to the observables...
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    On emission-line spectra obtained from evolutionary synthesis models. I. Dispersion in the ionising flux and Lowest Luminosity Limits
    Stellar clusters with the same general physical properties (e.g., total mass, age, and star-formation mode) may have very different stellar mass spectra due to...
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    On emission-line spectra obtained from evolutionary synthesis models. II. Scale-relations and the estimation of mass dependences
    Aims: In this paper we study the influence of the ionizing cluster mass on the emission line spectrum of H ii regions in order to determine the influence of low...
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    On surface brightness fluctuations: probabilistic and statistical bases. I. Stellar population and theoretical surface brightness fluctuations
    Aims: This work aims to provide a theoretical formulation of surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) in the framework of probabilistic population synthesis models...
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    On the Extreme Positive Feedback Star-forming Mode from Massive and Compact Super Star Clusters
    The force of gravity acting within the volume occupied by young, compact, and massive super star clusters is here shown to drive in situ all the matter...