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Young Massive Clusters in the Galactic Center
Donald F. Figer
The three young clusters in the Galactic Center represent the closest examples of massive starbursts and they define the upper mass limit of the Galactic cluster mass functions. In…
The Mass Function of the Arches Cluster from Gemini Adaptive Optics Data
Andrea Stolte, Eva K. Grebel, Wolfgang Brandner +1
We present the mass function (MF) of the Arches cluster obtained from ground-based adaptive optics data in comparison with results derived from HST/NICMOS data. A MF slope of Gamma…
Starburst Clusters in Galactic Nuclei
Donald F. Figer, Mark Morris
Galactic nuclei often harbor a disproportionately large amount of star formation activity with respect to their surrounding disks. Not coincidentally, the density of molecular mate…
Stellar Collisions and Mergers in the Galactic Center
Donald F. Figer, Sungsoo S. Kim
Stars are most likely to merge or collide in regions of the highest stellar densities, and our own Galactic Center contains many stars packed into a relatively small volume -- even…
K-Band Spectroscopy of an Obscured Massive Stellar Cluster in the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/4039) with NIRSPEC
A. M. Gilbert, J. R. Graham, I. S. McLean +6
We present infrared spectroscopy of the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/4039) with NIRSPEC at the W. M. Keck Observatory. We imaged the star clusters in the vicinity of the southern nu…
2 micron Spectroscopy within 0.3 arcseconds of SgrA*
Donald F. Figer, E. E. Becklin, Ian S. McLean +7
We present moderate (R~~2,700) and high resolution (R~~22,000) 2.02.4 \micron\ spectroscopy of the central 0.1 square arcseconds of the Galaxy obtained with NI…