Correlations of Globular Cluster Properties: Their Interpretations and Uses
Abstract
Correlations among the independently measured physical properties of globular clusters (GCs) can provide powerful tests for theoretical models and new insights into their dynamics, formation, and evolution. We review briefly some of the previous work, and present preliminary results from a comparative study of GC correlations in the Local Group galaxies. The results so far indicate that these diverse GC systems follow the same fundamental correlations, suggesting a commonality of formative and evolutionary processes which produce them.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0302129,
title = {Correlations of Globular Cluster Properties: Their Interpretations and Uses},
author = {S. G. Djorgovski and P. Cote and G. Meylan and S. Castro and L. Federici and G. Parmeggiani and C. Cacciari and F. Fusi Pecci and R. M. Rich and T. Jou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0302129},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
An invited review, to appear in "New Horizons in Globular Cluster Astronomy", eds. G. Piotto, G. Meylan, S.G. Djorgovski, and M. Riello, ASPCS, in press (2003). Latex file, 8 pages, 5 eps figures, style files included