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The study of star clusters plays an important role in our understanding of the Universe since these systems are natural laboratories for testing theories of stellar dynamics and evolution. Particularly, globular clusters (GCs) are one of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-31 Diogo Belloni , Liliana E. Rivera Sandoval

We present an upgraded version of the \MOCCA code for the study of dynamical evolution of globular clusters (GCs) and its first application to the study of evolution of multiple stellar populations. We explore initial conditions spanning…

Globular clusters (GCs) are the most ancient stellar systems in the Milky Way. Therefore, they play a key role in the understanding of the early chemical and dynamical evolution of our Galaxy. Around $40\%$ of them are placed within $\sim4$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Angeles Pérez-Villegas , Beatriz Barbuy , Leandro Kerber , Sergio Ortolani , Stefano O. Souza , Eduardo Bica

We present a novel method combining existing cosmological simulations and orbital integration to study the hierarchical assembly of globular cluster (GC) populations in the Milky Way (MW). Our method models the growth and evolution of GC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Pierre Boldrini , Paola Di Matteo , Chervin Laporte , Oscar Agertz , Sergey Khoperskov , Giulia Pagnini

The formation of stars with light-element abundance variations in globular clusters and the subsequent dynamical evolution of these multiple populations remains an open question. One of the most widely discussed is the AGB scenario, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-09 Mirek Giersz , Abbas Askar , Arkadiusz Hypki , Jongsuk Hong , Grzegorz Wiktorowicz , Lucas Hellstrom

We recently used a large set of Monte Carlo simulations of globular clusters (GCs) to define new fully empirical parameters (named A5, P5, and S2.5) able to trace the internal dynamical evolution of dense stellar systems. These parameters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 Barbara Lanzoni , Francesco R. Ferraro , Enrico Vesperini

Globular clusters are stellar dynamical systems which evolve on stellar evolutionary and both internal and external dynamical timescales. Quantitative comparison of cluster properties with realistic evolutionary dynamical models is becoming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerard Gilmore

Extragalactic globular clusters (GCs) are important tracers of galaxy formation and evolution. Obtaining GC catalogues from photometric data involves several steps which will likely become too time-consuming to perform on the large data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Dominik Dold , Katja Fahrion

We summarize some observational comparison concerning the features of globular clusters (GCs) population in connection to the evolution of King models. We also make a comparison with some extragalactic GCs systems, in order to underline the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-20 Marco Merafina , Daniele Vitantoni

The formation histories of globular clusters (GCs) are a key diagnostic for understanding their relation to the evolution of the Universe through cosmic time. We use the suite of 25 cosmological zoom-in simulations of present-day Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-15 Marta Reina-Campos , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Joel L. Pfeffer , Nate Bastian , Robert A. Crain

We present an analysis of high-quality photometry for globular clusters (GCs) in the Virgo cluster core region, based on data from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) pilot field, and in the Milky Way (MW) based on VLT/X-Shooter…

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 investigate structural properties of old, metal-poor globular clusters (GCs) formed at high redshifts (z>6) and located inside and outside virialized galaxy-scale halos in clusters of galaxies with the total masses of M_CL based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kenji Bekki , Hideki Yahagi

This study constitutes part of a larger effort aimed at better characterizing the Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) located towards the inner Milky Way bulge and disk. Here, we focus on internal kinematics of nine GGCs, obtained from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Roger E. Cohen , Andrea Bellini , Mattia Libralato , Matteo Correnti , Thomas M. Brown , Jason S. Kalirai

This paper reviews some recent work on the properties of the outer halos of galaxies. I particularly focus on recent and upcoming advances made with the study of globular clusters. Globular clusters can be observed out to ~100 kpc from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Stephen E. Zepf

We present an analysis of the spatial distribution of globular cluster (GC) systems of 118 nearby early-type galaxies in the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) and Mass Assembly of early-Type GaLAxies with their fine Structures…

Globular clusters (GCs) are found ubiquitously in massive galaxies and due to their old ages, they are regarded as fossil records of galaxy evolution. Spectroscopic studies of GC systems are often limited to the outskirts of galaxies, where…

We present an end-to-end description of the formation process of globular clusters (GCs) which combines a treatment for their formation and dynamical evolution within galaxy haloes with a state-of-the-art semi-analytic simulation of galaxy…

The properties of globular cluster systems (GCSs) in the core of the nearby galaxy clusters Fornax and Hydra I are presented. In the Fornax cluster we have gathered the largest radial velocity sample of a GCS system so far, which enables us…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-24 Michael Hilker , Tom Richtler

We use the data from Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) to study the kinematic properties of Milky Way globular clusters. We measure the mean parallaxes and proper motions (PM) for 170 clusters, determine the PM dispersion profiles for more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Eugene Vasiliev , Holger Baumgardt