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We study the present-day rotational velocity ($V_{rot}$) and velocity dispersion (${\sigma}$) profiles of the globular cluster (GC) systems in a sample of 50 lenticular (S0) galaxies from the E-MOSAICS galaxy formation simulations. We find…

The existence of globular clusters (GCs) in a few satellite galaxies, and their absence in majority of dwarf galaxies, present a challenge for models attempting to understand the origins of GCs. In addition to GC presence appearing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-24 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We present a review of the present state of knowledge regarding the relative ages of Galactic globular clusters. First, we discuss the relevant galaxy formation models and describe the detailed predictions they make with respect to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Ata Sarajedini , Brian Chaboyer , Pierre Demarque

Evolution of the mass function (MF) and radial distribution (RD) of the Galactic globular cluster (GC) system is calculated using an advanced and a realistic Fokker-Planck (FP) model that considers dynamical friction, disc/bulge shocks and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jihye Shin , Sungsoo S. Kim , Koji Takahashi

We investigate the accretion of globular cluster stars on early cosmological timescales through detailed N-body simulations of theoretical GC models to assess the role of this mechanism in Milky Way-like galaxies. For the dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-03 D. Kuvatova , M. Ishchenko , P. Berczik , O. Veles , O. Sobodar , T. Panamarev

We report results of proper motions of 15 known Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) old globular clusters (GCs) derived from the Gaia DR2 data sets. When these mean proper motions are gathered with existent radial velocity measurements to compose…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 Andrés E. Piatti , Emilio J. Alfaro , Tristan Cantat-Gaudin

We review what has been learned recently using N-body simulations about the evolution of globular clusters. While simulations of star clusters have become more realistic, and now include the evolution of single and binary stars, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas C. Heggie

Perhaps the most noteworthy of recent findings in extragalactic globular cluster (GC) research are the multimodal GC metallicity distributions seen in massive early-type galaxies. We explore the origin of these distinct GC populations, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Duncan A. Forbes , Jean P. Brodie , Carl Grillmair

In previous papers of this series, we developed a new algorithm for modeling the formation of star clusters in galaxy formation simulations. Here we investigate how dissolution of bound star clusters affects the shape of the cluster mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-21 Hui Li , Oleg Y. Gnedin

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

A major paradigm shift has recently revolutionized our picture of globular clusters (GC) that were long thought to be simple systems of coeval stars born out of homogeneous material. Indeed, detailed abundance studies of GC long-lived…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-01-23 C. Charbonnel , M. Krause , T. Decressin , N. Prantzos , G. Meynet

We review recent progress in the description of the formation and evolution of galaxy clusters in a cosmological context by using numerical simulations. We focus our presentation on the comparison between simulated and observed X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Stefano Borgani , Andrey Kravtsov

Modern hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation are able to predict accurately the rates and locations of the assembly of giant molecular clouds in early galaxies. These clouds could host star clusters with the masses and sizes of real…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Oleg Y. Gnedin

We derived the three-dimensional velocities of individual stars in a sample of 62 Galactic globular clusters using proper motions from the second data release of the Gaia mission together with the most comprehensive set of line-of-sight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 A. Sollima , H. Baumgardt , M. Hilker

Star formation plays a central role in the evolution of galaxies and of the Universe as a whole. Studies of star-forming regions in the local universe have shown that star formation typically occurs in a clustered fashion. Building a…

The metallicity distributions of globular cluster (GC) systems in galaxies are a critical test of any GC formation scenario. In this work, we investigate the predicted GC metallicity distributions of galaxies in the MOdelling Star cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-26 Joel Pfeffer , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Nate Bastian , Robert A. Crain , Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez

The ages and metallicities of globular clusters (GCs) are known to be powerful tracers of the properties of their progenitor galaxies, enabling their use in determining the merger histories of galaxies. However, while useful in separating…

We present a set of 148 independent $N$-body simulations of globular clusters (GCs) computed using the code $\texttt{CMC}$ ($\texttt{Cluster Monte Carlo}$). At an age of $\sim10-13\,$Gyr, the resulting models cover nearly the full range of…

By means of grid-based, 3D hydrodynamical simulations we study the formation of second generation (SG) stars in a young globular cluster (GC) of mass 10^7 Msun, the possible progenitor of an old GC with a present mass ~(1-5) * 10^6 Msun.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 F. Calura , A. D'Ercole , E. Vesperini , E. Vanzella , A. Sollima

A model for the mass in and around the Local Group previously used to fit redshifts of dwarf galaxies to their distances between 50 kpc and 2.6 Mpc under the condition of small and growing primeval departures from homogeneity is shown to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-16 P. J. E. Peebles