Reconstructing Galaxy Histories from Globular Clusters
Astrophysics
2015-06-24 v1
Abstract
Nearly a century after the true nature of galaxies as distant "island universes" was established, their origin and evolution remain great unsolved problems of modern astrophysics. One of the most promising ways to investigate galaxy formation is to study the ubiquitous globular star clusters that surround most galaxies. Recent advances in our understanding of the globular cluster systems of the Milky Way and other galaxies point to a complex picture of galaxy genesis driven by cannibalism, collisions, bursts of star formation and other tumultuous events.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0401366,
title = {Reconstructing Galaxy Histories from Globular Clusters},
author = {Michael J. West and Patrick Cote and Ronald O. Marzke and Andres Jordan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0401366},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Review Article published in Nature, 1 January 2004. 18 pages, 4 figures, pdf format only