Published in "The Extragalactic Distance Scale", Space
Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series 10, 1997, eds. M. Livio,
M. Donahue and N. Panagia
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- DATING GLOBULAR CLUSTERS
- Use of color-magnitude diagrams
- The
V and
(B - V)
techniques
- Luminosity functions
- Dynamical information
- OBSERVATIONAL INPUT
- Quality color-magnitude diagrams
- Distances of globular clusters
- Abundances
- MODELING INPUT
- Nuclear physics
- Radiative opacities
- Equation of state
- Convection
- Rotation
- Helium diffusion
- The impact of helioseismology
- A MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS
- SUMMARY AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
- REFERENCES
