List of works by Nate Bastian

A Universal Stellar Initial Mass Function? A Critical Look at Variations

A cluster in the making: ALMA reveals the initial conditions for high-mass cluster formation

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A critical assessment of models for the origin of multiple populations in globular clusters

A detailed study of the enigmatic cluster M82F

scholarly article

A general abundance problem for all self-enrichment scenarios for the origin of multiple populations in globular clusters

scholarly article

A high fraction of Be stars in young massive clusters: evidence for a large population of near-critically rotating stars

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A multiwavelength view of star formation in interacting galaxies in the Pavo group

scholarly article

A new method for measuring metallicities of young super star clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A spectroscopic census of the M82 stellar cluster population

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A variation of the fraction of stars that form in bound clusters within M83

article by E. Silva-Villa et al published 11 September 2013 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

A young cluster with an extended main-sequence turnoff: confirmation of a prediction of the stellar rotation scenario

scholarly article

ACS imaging of star clusters in M 51

scientific article

Age dating stellar populations in the near infrared: an absolute age indicator from the presence/absence of red supergiants

scholarly article

An Optical-Near-IR study of a triplet of super star clusters in the starburst core of M82

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

An alternative method to study star cluster disruption

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

An analytical description of the disruption of star clusters in tidal fields with an application to Galactic open clusters

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Analysis of Type IIn SN 1998S: Effects of Circumstellar Interaction on Observed Spectra

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Apparent age spreads in clusters and the role of stellar rotation

scientific article

Astrophysics: Stars throw their weight in old galaxies

scientific article published on 25 April 2012

Can habitable planets form in clustered environments?

scientific article

Candidate super star cluster progenitor gas clouds possibly triggered by close passage to Sgr A*

Chemical tagging with APOGEE: discovery of a large population of N-rich stars in the inner Galaxy

scholarly article

Chemistry and kinematics of red supergiant stars in the young massive cluster NGC 2100

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Clusters in the inner spiral arms of M 51: The cluster IMF and the formation history

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Comparing young massive clusters and their progenitor clouds in the Milky Way

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Constraining globular cluster formation through studies of young massive clusters - II. A single stellar population young massive cluster in NGC 34

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Constraining globular cluster formation through studies of young massive clusters – I. A lack of ongoing star formation within young clusters

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Constraining globular cluster formation through studies of young massive clusters – III. A lack of gas and dust in massive stellar clusters in the LMC and SMC

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Constraining globular cluster formation through studies of young massive clusters – IV. Testing the fast rotating massive star scenario

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Constraining globular cluster formation through studies of young massive clusters – V. ALMA observations of clusters in the Antennae

scholarly article

Constraining star cluster disruption mechanisms

Constraining the escape fraction of ionizing photons from H ii regions within NGC 300: A concept paper

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Constraints on possible age spreads within young massive clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud

scholarly article

Controversial age spreads from the main sequence turn-off and red clump in intermediate-age clusters in the LMC

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Distributed Star Formation throughout the Galactic Center Cloud Sgr B2

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Dynamical Masses of Young Star Clusters: Constraints on the Stellar IMF and Star-Formation Efficiency

Dynamical Masses of Young Star Clusters: Constraints on the Stellar IMF and Star-Formation Efficiency

Dynamical mass estimates for two luminous star clusters in galactic merger remnants

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

ERRATUM: “THE ROTATING NUCLEAR STAR CLUSTER IN NGC 4244” (2008, ApJ, 687, 997)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Early disc accretion as the origin of abundance anomalies in globular clusters

scholarly article

Evidence for environmentally dependent cluster disruption in M83

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Evidence for the strong effect of gas removal on the internal dynamics of young stellar clusters

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Evolution of stellar structure in the Small Magellanic Cloud

scientific article

Extended main sequence turn-offs in low mass intermediate-age clusters

scholarly article

Formation versus destruction: the evolution of the star cluster population in galaxy mergers

scientific article

G0.253 + 0.016: a molecular cloud progenitor of an Arches-like cluster

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

G0.253+0.016: a centrally condensed, high-mass protocluster

GLIMPSE-CO1: the most massive intermediate-age stellar cluster in the Galaxy

scholarly article

Gas expulsion and the destruction of massive young clusters

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Gas expulsion in massive star clusters?

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Gemini Spectroscopic Survey of Young Star Clusters in Merging/Interacting Galaxies. I. NGC 3256 Tidal Tail Clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Gemini Spectroscopic Survey of Young Star Clusters in Merging/Interacting Galaxies. II. NGC 3256 Clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Gemini Spectroscopy andHSTImaging of the Stellar Cluster Population in Region B of M82

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Gemini spectroscopic survey of young star clusters in Merging/Interacting galaxies. III. The Antennae

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Gemini spectroscopic survey of young star clusters in merging/interacting galaxies. IV. Stephan's Quintet

Globular cluster mass-loss in the context of multiple populations: Figure 1

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Hierarchical star formation in M33: fundamental properties of the star-forming regions

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Hierarchical star formation in M33: properties of the star-forming regions

Hierarchical star formation in M 51: star/cluster complexes

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

High-resolution study of the cluster complexes in a lensed spiral at redshift 1.5: constraints on the bulge formation and disk evolution

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Ionized and neutral gas in the peculiar star/cluster complex in NGC 6946

scientific article

Is the escape velocity in star clusters linked to extended star formation histories? Using NGC 7252: W3 as a test case

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Luminosity profiles and sizes of massive star clusters in NGC 7252

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Multiple ionization sources in Hâ ii regions and their effect on derived nebular abundances

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New results on the ages of star clusters in region B of M82

No evidence for significant age spreads in young massive LMC clusters

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No evidence for younger stellar generations within the intermediate-age massive clusters NGC 1783, NGC 1806 and NGC 411

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Nuclear Star Clusters & Black Holes

scholarly article published 2010

Observational evidence for a truncation of the star cluster initial mass function at the high mass end

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

On the fraction of star clusters surviving the embedded phase

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On the lifetime of discs around late-type stars

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On the star formation rate - brightest cluster relation: estimating the peak star formation rate in post-merger galaxies

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Pitfalls when observationally characterizing the relative formation rates of stars and stellar clusters in galaxies

scholarly article

Probing the role of the galactic environment in the formation of stellar clusters, using M83 as a test bench

scholarly article

Properties of the cluster population of NGC 1566 and their implications

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Radial distributions of sub-populations in the globular cluster M15: a more centrally concentrated primordial population

scholarly article

Resolved photometry of extragalactic young massive star clusters

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Revealing a ring-like cluster complex in a tidal tail of the starburst galaxy NGC 2146

scientific article

Scale Free Processes in Stellar Cluster Formation

Science case and requirements for the MOSAIC concept for a multi-object spectrograph for the European Extremely Large Telescope

Searching for GC-like abundance patterns in young massive clusters

scholarly article

Shocks and star formation in Stephan's Quintet. I. Gemini spectroscopy of H{alpha}-bright knots

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Sizes and shapes of young star cluster light profiles in M83

scholarly article

Spectroscopic constraints on the form of the stellar cluster mass function

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Star cluster formation and disruption time-scales -- II. Evolution of the star cluster system in the fossil starburst of M82

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Star cluster formation and evolution in nearby starburst galaxies -- I. Systematic uncertainties

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Star cluster formation and evolution in nearby starburst galaxies -- II. Initial conditions

scientific article (publication date: 21 August 2003)

Star clusters as tracers of interactions in stephan's quintet (Hickson compact group 92)

article published in 2011

Star clusters in the tidal tails of interacting galaxies: cluster populations across a variety of tail environments

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Star/Cluster Formation in Complexes: Insights from IFUs and HST

Stellar clusters in M83: formation, evolution, disruption and the influence of the environment

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Studying the YMC population of M83: how long clusters remain embedded, their interaction with the ISM and implications for GC formation theories

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Systematic uncertainties in the analysis of star cluster parameters based on broad-band imaging observations

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The Maximum Mass of Star Clusters

The Missing Link in Star Cluster Evolution

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The NGC 404 nucleus: star cluster and possible intermediate-mass black hole

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The O stars in the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

The Radii of Thousands of Star Clusters in M51 with HST/ACS

The Rotating Nuclear Star Cluster in NGC 4244

scholarly article

The Snapshot Hubble U-band Cluster Survey (SHUCS). I. Survey description and first application to the mixed star cluster population of NGC 4041

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The Snapshot Hubble U-band Cluster Survey (SHUCS). II. The star cluster population of NGC 2997

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. I. Introduction and observational overview

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The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. III. A very massive star in apparent isolation from the massive cluster R136

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The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. IV. Candidates for isolated high-mass star formation in 30 Doradus

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The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. VI. Evidence for rotation of the young massive cluster R136

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The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. VII. A low velocity dispersion for the young massive cluster R136

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The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XI. A census of the hot luminous stars and their feedback in 30 Doradus

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula survey

symposium paper

The VLT–FLAMES Tarantula Survey

Contributed Paper

The Young Cluster Population of M82 Region B

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The age distribution of stellar clusters in M83

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The dynamical state of stellar structure in star-forming regions

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The early expansion of cluster cores

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The effect of spatial resolution on optical and near-IR studies of stellar clusters: implications for the origin of the red excess

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The effect of stellar rotation on colour-magnitude diagrams: on the apparent presence of multiple populations in intermediate age stellar clusters

scholarly article

The effects of spatially distributed ionisation sources on the temperature structure of H ii regions

article published in 2009

The effects of spatially distributed ionization sources on the temperature structure of H II regions

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The evolution of stellar structures in dwarf galaxies

scientific article

The iron dispersion of the globular cluster M2, revised

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

The luminosity function of young star clusters: implications for the maximum mass and luminosity of clusters

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The morphology of the sub-giant branch and red clump reveal no sign of age spreads in intermediate-age clusters

scientific article

The optical structure of the starburst galaxy M82. I. Dynamics of the disk and inner-wind

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The search for multiple populations in Magellanic Cloud clusters – I. Two stellar populations in the Small Magellanic Cloud globular cluster NGC 121

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The search for multiple populations in Magellanic Cloud clusters – II. The detection of multiple populations in three intermediate-age SMC clusters

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The spatial distribution of star formation in the solar neighbourhood: do all stars form in dense clusters?

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The spatial evolution of stellar structures in the LMC/SMC

The spatial evolution of stellar structures in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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The star cluster population in the tidal tails of NGC 6872

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The star cluster population of M51. II. Age distribution and relations among the derived parameters

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The star cluster population of M51. III. Cluster disruption and formation history

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The tight subgiant branch of the intermediate-age star cluster NGC 411 implies a single-aged stellar population

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The transition between star clusters and dwarf galaxies

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Tracing the conversion of gas into stars in Young Massive Cluster Progenitors

scientific article

Turbulence sets the initial conditions for star formation in high-pressure environments

article published in 2014

Under pressure: star clusters and the neutral hydrogen medium of tidal tails

scholarly article

VIMOS-IFU Spectroscopy of Extragalactic Star Forming Complexes

VLT-MAD observations of the core of 30 Doradus

scholarly article

Young Massive Clusters: Their Population Properties, Formation and Evolution, and Their Relation to the Ancient Globular Clusters

Young star cluster complexes in NGC 4038/39. Integral field spectroscopy using VIMOS-VLT

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics