Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-09-04
2002, in Extragalactic Star Clusters, IAU Symp. 207, eds D. Geisler, E.K. Grebel, & D. Minniti (San Francisco: ASP), 745-754
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 2 figures. To appear in IAU Symp. 207, "Extragalactic Star Clusters," eds. E. K. Grebel, D. Geisler, & D. Minniti (A
Scientific paper
We discuss the future possibilities for extragalactic star cluster research with the expected new ground-based and space-based telescopes and instrumentation. Significant gains are expected due to improved angular resolution, sensitivity, and area coverage particularly in the infrared and radio, accompanied by progress in evolutionary and dynamical modelling. Improvements in angular resolution are anticipated, especially through new adaptive optics systems (e.g., Keck, Gemini, VLT), and interferometry (e.g., Keck, VLT, LBT, ALMA, SMA, SkA), and space instrumentation (e.g., Chandra, NGST), enabling studies even of deeply embedded, forming extragalactic star clusters. Tidal disruption of Galactic clusters becomes observable through wide-area surveys such as the SDSS, VISTA, PRIME, including proper motion measurements through high-resolution imaging (e.g., HST, LBT, SIM, GAIA). Sensitive new optical and infrared spectrographs (e.g., HET, SALT, GranTeCan, Magellan, Keck, VLT, CELT, OWL, NGST) will push kinematic and abundance studies to new limits, allowing us detailed comparisons with model predictions. One important wavelength range for the study of young, massive star clusters, the far UV, appears to be neglected by future planned instrumentation.
Grebel Eva Katharina
~Gallagher John S.
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