Galaxy Wars: Star Formation and Stellar Populations in Interacting Galaxies Conference

银河战争：相互作用星系会议中的恒星形成和恒星种群

• 批准号: 0853565
• 负责人: Beverly Smith
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: East Tennessee State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0853565&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Galaxy; Wars; Star; Formation; Stellar

This July 2009 workshop to be held at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) highlights the physics of galaxy interactions. Strongly interacting galaxies are in a short-lived but important stage of evolution, characterized by tidal tails, bridges, and other morphological peculiarities, along with enhanced star formation and luminous young star clusters. Recent hydrodynamical models of interactions are able to reproduce the morphology and star formation history of individual systems in some detail, while space-and ground-based telescopes have provided much new information about star and star-cluster formation. The meeting will bring together star formation experts, aficionados of stellar population synthesis, numerical modelers, and experts in observations at different wavelengths, working towards a more complete picture of these encounters. The organizers expect about 60 participants. The meeting will bring world-class researchers to an underserved region of the country. Both the list of possible speakers and the scientific organizing committee are roughly 50% women. To attract a diverse group of attendees, the meeting will be advertised by mailings to faculty at local historically-black colleges and universities, and to astronomers on the American Astronomical Society's list of minority speakers who have research interests related to the meeting topics. Local undergraduate students, high-school teachers and amateur astronomers will be invited to attend without paying a registration fee. NSF support will allow graduate students and researchers from smaller colleges to participate.

2009年7月在东田纳西州立大学（ETSU）举行的研讨会强调了银河相互作用的物理。 强烈相互作用的星系处于短暂但重要的进化阶段，其特征是潮汐尾巴，桥梁和其他形态学特征，以及增强的恒星形成和发光的年轻恒星簇。最近的流体动力学模型能够详细地重现单个系统的形态和恒星形成历史，而空间和地面望远镜则提供了有关Star和Star Cluster形成的许多新信息。 这次会议将汇集恒星阵型专家，恒星种群综合的狂热者，数值建模者和不同波长的观测专家，旨在更完整地了解这些遭遇。 组织者期望约60名参与者。该会议将将世界一流的研究人员带到该国服务不足的地区。 可能的演讲者名单和科学组织委员会的名单大约是50％的女性。 为了吸引一群不同的与会者，会议将通过邮寄给当地历史黑色学院和大学的教师，以及美国天文学会的天文学家的少数群体演讲者名单，这些少数派发言人名单具有与会议主题相关的研究兴趣。 当地的本科生，高中老师和业余天文学家将被邀请参加，而无需支付注册费。 NSF的支持将允许较小大学的研究生和研究人员参加。