Stellar Populations in the Cosmological Context: Day 2

Day 2 of the meeting finds us moving away from in depth studies of individual stellar clusters, to larger ensembles of stars -- namely, systems of stellar clusters (in the morning), and dwarf galaxies + tidally shredded galaxy debris, left behind as streams in the halos of nearby galaxies (in the afternoon). The morning talks featured an exceptionally clear talk by Dean McLaughlin discussing the scaling relations one expects to see among the properties of the globular cluster population, assuming that most globular clusters are destroyed by evaporation/relaxation after they form. (Mike Fall had recently sent me the relevant papers, and I hang my head in shame at confessing I had not yet read them, but now I will, I promise.) Highlights of the morning also included two talks with different viewpoints on the dissolution of young stellar clusters. Rupali Chandar presented a simple empirical scaling law that does a ...