MODEST Working Group 10:
Outreach

Definition, history, and links
Editor's choices for most educational APODs

Definition, history, and links
Editor's choices for most educational APODs

Blue Stragglers in Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
Blue Stragglers in Globular Cluster NGC 6397

Astronomers Discover Youngest Massive Star Cluster in Milky Way (August 7, 2000)
Growing Thousand-solar-mass Black Holes in Star Clusters (January 8, 2002)
The Formation of Stars and Brown Dwarfs and the Truncation of Protoplanetary Discs in a Star Cluster (April 12, 2002)
Star Cluster with Surprising Similarities to Sun's Composition Offers Clues on Milky Way Evolution (June 3, 2002)
Researchers Seek "Heart" of Black Hole Mystery (January 10, 2003)
Close Encounters of the Stellar Kind (July 30, 2003)
Researchers Resolve Intermediate Black Hole Mystery (April 14, 2004)

The Star Machine (Discover 18, No. 6, 76-83, 1997): about the GRAPE hardware
Two Stars Collide; A New Star Is Born (NYT, June 13, 2000): about "Stellar Collisions, Mergers, and Their Consequences" conference (subscription required)
Star Formation (special issue of Science magazine, January 4, 2002): how stars and star clusters are born (subscription required)
When Stars Collide (feature article in Scientific American, November 2002): about all types of stellar collisions (subscription required)
Black Holes in the Middle: Massive Stars Merge (cover story in Astronomy magazine, March 2004): runaway collisions may be responsible for massive black holes (subscription required)
Formation of massive black holes through runaway collisions in dense young star clusters (Nature, April 15, 2004; full text requires subscription)

MODEST-1: Integrating Stellar Evolution and Stellar Dynamics: the first few sections give a nice overview of MODEST
Literature Working Group List: intended for astrophysicists new to MODEST, or anyone who likes gory details

From Simulation to Visualization: Astrophysics Goes Hollywood: PowerPoint presentation that includes stellar collision and star cluster animations

The formation of a small star cluster

30 Doradus system
From Taurus to the Hyades: includes a 3D look at the Hyades open cluster based on Hipparcos data
Sample animations created with the Starlab toolset

Animations from the Digital Demo Room

Stellar collisions: by Joshua Barnes
Stellar collisions: by Marc Freitag
Stellar collision between high mass stars: by James Lombardi and students
Various stellar hydrodynamics scenarios: hosted by Hayden Planetarium

The GRAPE project: from the makers of GRAPE-6
MD-GRAPE: a GRAPE board that also does molecular dynamics

The Art of Computational Science: a series of books centered around N-body simulations.
Make Me A Star: a package for generating stellar collision products
McScatter: a program for integrating binary evolution with stellar dynamics
NEMO: a stellar dynamics toolbox
Partiview: a program for visualizing particle data
Starlab: a powerful unix toolbox for simulating stellar systems

Single star evolution: in the Digital Demo Room
Binary evolution: with the Scenario Machine
Binary evolution: with SeBa
TRIPTYCH: simulate the collision of two stars
TRIPLETYCH: simulate the interaction of three stars
TYCHO web interface: simulate the evolution of a star