Star Clusters and Black Holes in Galaxies across Cosmic Time (IAU S312)

Experts on high resolution observations, theoretical modelling and computational simulations present their research on star clusters, black holes and their interrelations.

Yohai Meiron (Edited by), Shuo Li (Edited by), Fukun Liu (Edited by), Rainer Spurzem (Edited by)

9781107078727, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 April 2016

315 pages, 160 b/w illus.
25.5 x 18 x 1.5 cm, 0.65 kg

Star clusters and black holes are moving into the focus of high resolution astrophysics, computationally as well as observationally. For the first time, observations in many regions of the electromagnetic spectrum are converging with theoretical modelling and computer simulations. These cosmological and galaxy formation models reach down to the supermassive black hole level and follow their formation and growth in the centres of galaxies, by gas and star accretion. IAU Symposium 312 brings together experts on high resolution observations as well as theoretical modelling and computational simulations, who present their research on star clusters, black holes and their interrelations, and gravitational wave astrophysics. IAU S312 continues the tradition of IAU symposia on stellar dynamics and related areas, allowing interested graduate students and researchers to access the current state of these fields.

Part I. Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei: 1. Galaxy mergers, AGN feedback, binary black holes, tidal disruption
2. Dynamics of stars and gas around black holes
3. Accretion disks around supermassive black holes
Part II. Galactic and Extragalactic Globular Clusters: 4. Extragalactic globular cluster systems
5. Globular star clusters in the Local Group
6. Galactic globular clusters
7. Dwarf galaxies, nuclear star clusters
8. Nuclear star clusters
Part III. Gravitational Wave Emission, Observations, and the Link to Astrophysics: 9. Gravitational wave emission, space instruments, black holes in galaxies
Author index.

Subject Areas: Astrophysics [PHVB], Galaxies & stars [PGM], Cosmology & the universe [PGK], Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods [PGG]