List of abstracts received for SCYON

Issue no 2, March 14 2001

John M. Carpenter, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, M. F. Skrutskie (March 12, 2001): Near-Infrared Photometric Variability of Stars Toward the Orion A Molecular Cloud
Jörg Sanner, Michael Geffert (March 9, 2001): The IMF of open star clusters with Tycho-2
Jörg Sanner, Jens Brunzendorf, Jean-Marie Will, and Michael Geffert (March 9, 2001): Photometric and kinematic studies of open star clusters. III. NGC 4103, NGC 5281, and NGC 4755
W. S. Dias, J. R. D. Lépine, B. S. Alessi (March 8, 2001): Proper motions of Southern open clusters within 1kpc based on the UCAC1 Catalog
Ram Sagar, U. Munari and K. S. de Boer (March 4, 2001): Multicolour CCD photometric and mass function study of the distant southern open star clusters
NGC 3105, NGC 3603, Melotte 105, Hogg 15, NGC 4815, Pismis 20 and NGC 6253
L. Prisinzano, G. Carraro, G. Piotto, A. Seleznev, P.B. Stetson, I. Saviane (January 29, 2001): Luminosity and mass function of galactic open clusters: I. NGC 4815
A.V. Loktin, T.P. Gerasimenko, L.K. Malisheva (January 15, 2001): The catalogue of our Galaxy open cluster parameters - second version.
A.V. Loktin, G.V. Beshenov (January 15, 2001): Hipparcos parallaxes and the distance scale of open clusters.

H. Baumgardt (March 6, 2001): Halo enrichment by disrupted globular clusters
Sylvie F. Beaulieu, Gerard Gilmore, Rebecca A.W. Elson, Rachel A. Johnson, Basilio Santiago, Steinn Sigurdsson, Nial Tanvir (February 16, 2001): The Metal-rich Globular Cluster NGC 6553: Observations with WFPC2, STIS, and NICMOS

C. Maraston, M. Kissler-Patig, J.P. Brodie, P. Barmby, J.P. Huchra (March 12, 2001): The AGB phase-transition outside the Local Group: K-band observations of young star clusters in NGC 7252
M. Fellhauer, H. Baumgardt, P. Kroupa, R. Spurzem (March 6, 2001): Merging Timescales and Merger Rates of Star Clusters in Dense Star Cluster Complexes
Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Stuart D. Ryder, and J. H. Knapen (March 6, 2001): Nuclear star formation in the hot-spot galaxy NGC 2903
Stuart D. Ryder, J. H. Knapen and M. Takamiya (March 6, 2001): Near-infrared spectroscopy of the circumnuclear star formation regions in M100: Evidence for sequential triggering
R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta (February 21, 2001): Galactic nuclear activity induced by globular cluster merging
R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, A. Vicari, P. Battinelli, G. Arrabito (February 21, 2001): Application of an objective method for the identification of Young Star Groupings in spiral galaxies
Marina Rejkuba (February 16, 2001): Deep VLT search for globular clusters in NGC 5128: color-magnitude diagrams and globular cluster luminosity function

Aylwyn Scally, Cathie Clarke (February 1, 2001): Destruction of Protoplanetary Disks in the Orion Nebula Cluster
Ralf Klessen (January 18, 2001): The Formation of Stellar Clusters: Time Varying Protostellar Mass Accretion Rates

H. Baumgardt (March 6, 2001): Scaling of N-body calculations
Christian Boily, Pavel Kroupa (February 5, 2001): Impact of Gas Removal on the Evolution of Embedded Clusters

Pavel Kroupa (February 27, 2001): The Initial Mass Function and its Variation