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...from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
—Charles Darwin
Fall 2009 Evolution, Diversity and Change
Public Lecture - Massive Open Star Clusters in our Galaxy: studying the known and deducing the unknown
Margaret Hanson, University of Cincinnati
When: Monday, September 14, 2009 @ 7:30 p.m.
Where: Swain Hall West, Room 007
Departmental Sponsor: Department of Astronomy
Abstract:
Surveys of the sky using infrared light have given us a glimpse of the stars of the inner plane of our Milky Way galaxy, a region obscured by dust when viewed in visible light. Hidden in the dust are massive clusters of stars, as well as high-density regions of unbound stars that mimic true, bound stellar clusters. But how many clusters remain undiscovered?
Professor Hanson will describe her research to understand the population of massive star clusters in our own galaxy.
Professor Hanson received her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Colorado in 1995. Following her postdoctoral study as a Hubble Fellow, she joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnaty in 1998. Her research focuses on the formation and evolution of massive stars in the Milky Way and in other galaxies.
