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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
On the formation of globular cluster systems in a hierarchical Universe
We have investigated the formation of globular cluster (GC) systems in the fiducial semi-analytic model of galaxy formation of Cole et al., by assuming that GCs...
Here we report on the properties of the star forming factory, in which the continuous creation of stars results into a highly concentrated, massive (globular...