The Globular Cluster Luminosity Function
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
The main aspects of the globular cluster luminosity function needing to be explained by a general theory of cluster formation are reviewed, and the importance of simultaneously understanding globular cluster systematics (the fundamental plane) within such a theory is pointed out.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0302284,
title = {The Globular Cluster Luminosity Function},
author = {Dean E. McLaughlin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0302284},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, to appear in Proceedings of the ESO Workshop on Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems, ed. M. Kissler-Patig