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) 举办的研讨会重点介绍了星系相互作用的物理学。 强相互作用的星系正处于一个短暂但重要的演化阶段，其特征是潮汐尾、桥梁和其他形态特征，以及增强的恒星形成和发光的年轻星团。最近的相互作用流体动力学模型能够在一定程度上再现各个系统的形态和恒星形成历史，而太空和地面望远镜则提供了许多有关恒星和星团形成的新信息。 这次会议将汇集恒星形成专家、恒星族合成爱好者、数值建模者和不同波长观测专家，致力于更全面地了解这些相遇。 组织者预计约有 60 名参与者。这次会议将把世界一流的研究人员带到该国服务欠缺的地区。 可能的演讲者名单和科学组织委员会中大约有 50% 是女性。 为了吸引多元化的与会者，会议将通过邮寄广告的方式发送给当地历史悠久的黑人学院和大学的教职人员，以及美国天文学会少数族裔发言者名单上对会议主题有研究兴趣的天文学家。 当地本科生、高中教师和业余天文学家将被邀请参加，无需支付注册费。 美国国家科学基金会的支持将允许来自小型学院的研究生和研究人员参与。