The exciting life of old stellar clusters

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• William Chantereu (LJMU)
• Friday 08 February 2019, 11:30-12:30
• AWPG-111 (Alan Walters building).

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Globular clusters are among the oldest and brightest structures in the Universe, and are therefore witnesses of processes from the early up to the present-day Universe. In turn, they play a major role in the benchmark for stellar evolution theory and they are used to constrain the assembly histories of galaxies. Over the last decades, several pieces of ground-breaking observational evidence were accumulated pointing out the presence of multiple stellar populations with different chemical compositions in every individual globular cluster studied in detail so far. I will review the effects of chemical features typical of these multiple populations on the evolution of stars and I will show their impact on the properties of their hosting cluster. Finally, I will briefly discuss their effect at larger scales on external galaxies.

This talk is part of the Astrophysics Seminars series.

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