Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-11-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
29 pages, proceedings of IAU JD06, to appear in Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 14, ed. K. A. van der Hucht
Scientific paper
This article was co-authored by all invited speakers at the Joint Discussion on `Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Star Clusters,' which took place during the IAU General Assembly in Prague, Czech Republic, on August 17 and 18, 2006. Each section presents a short summary of recent developments in a key area of research, incorporating the main ideas expressed during the corresponding panel discussion at the meeting. Our meeting, which had close to 300 registered participants, was broadly aimed at the large community of astronomers around the world working on the formation and evolution of compact objects and interacting binary systems in dense star clusters, such as globular clusters and galactic nuclei. Great advances have occurred in this field during the past few years, including the introduction of fundamentally new theoretical paradigms for the formation and evolution of compact objects in binaries as well as countless new discoveries by astronomers that have challenged many accepted models. Some of the highlights include: a nearly complete census of all the millisecond pulsars in 47 Tuc; first detections of many new radio pulsars in other clusters, particularly Terzan 5; detailed studies of X-ray binary populations and their luminosity functions in many galaxies and extragalactic globular clusters; increasing evidence for intermediate-mass black holes in clusters and greatly improved theoretical understanding of their possible formation processes.
Baumgardt Holger
Corongiu Alessandro
D'Antona Francesca
Fabbiano Giuseppina
Fregeau John M.
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