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We have carried out a large grid of N-body simulations in order to investigate if mass-loss as a result of primordial gas expulsion can be responsible for the large fraction of second generation stars in globular clusters (GCs) with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-14 Pouria Khalaj , Holger Baumgardt

We present a catalog of 422 galaxies with published measurements of their globular cluster (GC) populations. Of these, 248 are E galaxies, 93 are S0 galaxies, and 81 are spirals or irregulars. Among various correlations of the total number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 William E. Harris , Gretchen L. H. Harris , Matthew Alessi

Many observable properties of globular clusters (GCs) provide valuable insights for unveiling the hierarchical assembly of their host galaxy. For the Milky Way (MW) in particular, GCs from different accreted satellite galaxies show distinct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-05 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We examine four ancient Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) globular clusters (GCs) for evidence of multiple stellar populations using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope Programme GO-14164. NGC…

The FLAMES survey ``Na-O anti-correlation and HB" uncovered the modern standard for globular clusters (GCs), that is their ubiquitous multiple stellar populations (MPs) distinct by the abundance of proton-capture elements. That survey can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Eugenio Carretta

Spreads in light element abundances among stars (a.k.a. multiple populations) are observed in nearly all globular clusters. One way to map such chemical variations using high-precision photometry is to employ a suitable combination of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Carmela Lardo , Maurizio Salaris , Nate Bastian , Alessio Mucciarelli , Emanuele Dalessandro , Ivan Cabrera-Ziri

This paper explores if, and to what an extent, the stellar populations of early type galaxies can be traced through the colour distribution of their globular cluster systems. The analysis, based on a galaxy sample from the Virgo ACS data,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Juan C. Forte , E. Irene Vega , Favio R. Faifer

The presence of multiple populations (MPs) with distinctive light element abundances is a widespread phenomenon in clusters older than 6 Gyr. Clusters with masses, luminosities, and sizes comparable to those of ancient globulars are still…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 C. Lardo , I. Cabrera-Ziri , B. Davies , N. Bastian

We investigate the relationship between the mass of a globular cluster core and the sizes of its various stellar populations in a sample of 56 globular clusters. The number of core red giant branch stars is found to scale sub-linearly with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Leigh , A. Sills , C. Knigge

Multiple stellar populations (MPs), characterized by star-to-star light-element abundance variations, are ubiquitous in globular clusters (GCs). Spectroscopy directly reveals these anomalies, while photometric studies, especially with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Zhuohang Li , Xia Li , Hao Tian , Xin Zhang , Antonino P. Milone , Long Wang , Baitian Tang , Edoardo P. Lagioia , Chengyuan Li

All globular clusters (GCs) studied to date show evidence for internal variation in their light element abundances. These variations have been interpreted as evidence for multiple star formation episodes within GCs, with secondary episodes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Charlie Conroy

New and archival HST images of the globular cluster systems of 17 relatively nearby galaxies and 6 more distant galaxies have been used to establish the characteristics of GC subpopulations over a range of host galaxy morphological type…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean P. Brodie

We present a morphological analysis of the feature-rich 2MASS LMC color-magnitude diagram, identifying Galactic and LMC populations and estimating the density of LMC populations alone. We also present the projected spatial distributions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergei Nikolaev , Martin D. Weinberg

Globular clusters (GCs) are known to host multiple stellar populations showing chemical anomalies in the content of light elements. The origin of such anomalies observed in Galactic GCs is still debated. Here we analyse data compiled from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Hagai B. Perets

The analysis of pseudo-colour diagrams, the so-called chromosome maps, of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) permits to classify them into type I and type II clusters. Type II GCs are characterized by an above-the-average complexity of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 Matteo Simioni , Antonio Aparicio , Giampaolo Piotto

We present the third paper about our ongoing HST survey for the search for multiple stellar populations (MPs) within Magellanic Cloud clusters. We report here the analysis of NGC 419, a $\sim 1.5$ Gyr old, massive ($\gtrsim 2 \times 10^5 \,…

We investigate the synthetic model of globular cluster (GC) systems of 17 compact massive galaxies (CMGs) from the Illustris TNG100 simulation to explore their connection with massive relic galaxies, systems that have undergone little…

Studies based on Hubble Space Telescope ($HST$) photometry in F275W, F336W, and F438W have shown that the incidence and complexity of multiple populations (MPs) in Globular Clusters (GCs) depend on cluster mass. This result, however, is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Edoardo P. Lagioia , Antonino P. Milone , Anna F. Marino , Giacomo Cordoni , Marco Tailo

Stars in massive star clusters exhibit intrinsic variations in some light elements (MPs) that are difficult to explain in a coherent formation scenario. In recent years, HST photometry has led to the characterisation of the global…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 Carmela Lardo , Maurizio Salaris , Santi Cassisi , Nate Bastian

Nearly all of the well studied ancient globular clusters (GCs), in the Milky Way and in nearby galaxies, show star-to-star variations in specific elements (e.g., He, C, N, O, Na, Al), known as "multiple populations" (MPs). However, MPs are…