10 papers
Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds and Other Local Systems
A. D. Mackey, G. F. Gilmore
Observations of rich LMC and SMC clusters reveal an increasing spread in core radius with age. This trend likely represents real physical evolution in these systems. Old Magellanic…
Future prospects: Merging data with models
Gerard Gilmore
Globular clusters are stellar dynamical systems which evolve on stellar evolutionary and both internal and external dynamical timescales. Quantitative comparison of cluster propert…
GAIA: Understanding the Galaxy
Gerard Gilmore
The GAIA Observatory, ESA's Cornerstone 6 mission, addresses the origin and evolution of our Galaxy, and a host of other scientific challenges. GAIA will provide unprecedented posi…
The Thick Disk-Halo Interface
Gerard Gilmore, Rosemary F. G. Wyse
The star formation history of a galaxy, explicitely here our Milky Way Galaxy, where the most detailed information is attainable, is the convolution of two functions. One function…
The Low-Mass Stellar IMF at High Redshift: Faint Stars in the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Gerard Gilmore, Sofia Feltzing +1
Low-mass stars, those with main-sequence lifetimes that are of order the age of the Universe, provide unique constraints on the Initial Mass Function (IMF) when they formed. Star c…
Baryonic Dark Matter: Limits from HST and ISO
Gerard Gilmore, IoA Cambridge, UK
Recent HST and ISO observations provide very severe limits on any compact baryonic contributions to galactic (dark) halos. When combined with Milky Way Galaxy microlensing results,…