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Open Clusters as Tests of Stellar Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

A. Maeder  and
J. C. Mermilliod
A. Maeder
Affiliation:
Geneva Observatory
J. C. Mermilliod
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astronomie de l'Université de Lausanne

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The HR diagram (HRD) of clusters constitutes an especially sensitive test of physical processes in stellar interiors. Let us remember that the picture of inhomogeneous stellar evolution imposed itself by the fact that the cluster sequences turn to the right in the HRD (cf. Schwarzschild, 1958).

Type
August 28 Open Clusters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 85: Star Clusters , 1980 , pp. 215 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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