Talk Title: Stellar content of young star clusters in interacting galaxies
Abstract: Young star clusters in interacting galaxies are almost ideal targets for an analysis of the clustered star formation mode, because they are very abundant in some interacting galaxies, they are relatively young (not many stars have evolved off the main sequence), and many of them have a high total mass (meaning that the high number of stars overcomes stochastic effects in sampling the IMF). We have determined dynamical masses (using VLT high resolution spectroscopy and HST imaging) for ~20 young stellar clusters in four different interacting galaxies (most of them in the Antennae), and draw conclusions from this concerning the high- vs. low-mass stellar content, and describe other properties of these young clusters.
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