SCYON Abstract

Received on September 18 2006

The impact of red giant mass loss on star cluster evolution

Authors	Jacco Th. van Loon and Iain McDonald
Affiliation	Astrophysics Group, Lennard-Jones Laboratories, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, United Kingdom
To appear in	"Mass loss from stars and the evolution of stellar clusters", a conference in honour of Henny Lamers, eds. A. de Koter, L. Smith and L.B.F.M. Waters, ASP Conf.Ser
Contact	jacco@astro.keele.ac.uk
URL	http://it.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609445
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Abstract

We discuss the importance for the long-term cluster evolution of the mass loss from intermediate-mass stars (0.8-8 M_sun). We present constraints on the mass loss from red giants in clusters in the Magellanic Clouds, a search for the intra-cluster medium in galactic globular clusters, and a simple estimate for the cluster evolution due to red giant mass loss compared to stellar escape.