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We present an end-to-end, two-phase model for the origin of globular clusters (GCs). In the model, populations of stellar clusters form in the high-pressure discs of high-redshift ($z>2$) galaxies (a rapid-disruption phase due to tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-14 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

Next-generation surveys are expected to uncover thousands of globular cluster (GC) stellar streams, motivating the need for a theoretical framework that produces realistic GC streams in a fully cosmological, Milky Way-like environment. We…

Scaling relations for globular clusters (GC) differ from scaling relations for pressure supported (elliptical) galaxies. We show that two-body relaxation is the dominant mechanism in shaping the bivariate dependence of density on mass and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-07 Mark Gieles , Poul Alexander

We use kinematic data of proper motions from Gaia of forty-two globular and open clusters from Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to explore the possibility of them having extragalactic origins. We find the difference between the proper motions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-11 Tamojeet Roychowdhury , Navdha Bhalla

In order to investigate the origin of multiple stellar populations found in globular clusters (GCs) in the halo and bulge of the Milky Way, we have constructed chemical evolution models for their putative low-mass progenitors. In light of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Jenny J. Kim , Young-Wook Lee

Stellar dynamical model globular clusters are introduced into reconstituted versions of the dark matter halos of the Via-Lactea II (VL-2) simulation to follow the star cluster tidal mass loss and stellar stream formation. The clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-18 Raymond G. Carlberg

We investigate the epicyclic motion of stars escaping from star clusters. Using streaklines, we visualise the path of escaping stars and show how epicyclic motion leads to over- and underdensities in tidal tails of star clusters moving on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Andreas H. W. Kuepper , Richard R. Lane , Douglas C. Heggie

Velocity dispersion ($\sigma$) in stellar streams from globular clusters (GCs) is sensitive to heating by Galactic substructure, including dark matter (DM) subhalos. Recent studies have compared $\sigma$ in observed and modeled streams to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-20 Newlin C. Weatherford , Ana Bonaca

Globular clusters (GCs) display much lower binary fractions than found among main-sequence stars in the solar neighborhood. The physical cause of this difference is debatable: does it reflect different star formation outcomes at low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-06 Christopher E. O'Connor , Kyle Kremer , Frederic A. Rasio

The mass evaporation rate of globular clusters evolving in a strong Galactic tidal field is derived through the analysis of large, multi-mass $N$-body simulations. For comparison, we also study the same evaporation rates using MOCCA Monte…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Juan P. Madrid , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Jarrod R. Hurley , Mirek Giersz

In this work we investigate properties of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) that escape from star clusters due to dynamical interactions. The studied models were simulated as part of the preliminary second survey carried out using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 Konrad Maliszewski , Mirek Giersz , Dorota Gondek-Rosińska , Abbas Askar , Arkadiusz Hypki

Globular clusters (GCs) are sites of extremely efficient star formation, and recent studies suggest they significantly contributed to the early Milky Way's stellar mass build-up. Although their role has since diminished, GCs' impact on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-14 Sarah G. Kane , Vasily Belokurov , Miles Cranmer , Stephanie Monty , Hanyuan Zhang , Anke Ardern-Arentsen , Elana Kane

This work presents the Globular cluster Extra-tidal Mock Star (GEMS) catalogue of extra-tidal stars and binaries created via three-body dynamical encounters in globular cluster cores. Using the particle-spray code Corespray, we sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-17 Steffani M. Grondin , Jeremy J. Webb , James M. M. Lane , Joshua S. Speagle , Nathan W. C. Leigh

The dissolution process of star clusters is rather intricate for theory. We investigate it in the context of chaotic dynamics. We use the simple Plummer model for the gravitational field of a star cluster and treat the tidal field of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Andreas Ernst , Andreas Just , Rainer Spurzem , Oliver Porth

This is the second paper in a series, which studies the likelihood that some globular clusters (GCs) of the Milky Way (MW) could have originated from a dwarf satellite galaxy (DSG). Using a large suite of three-body simulations we determine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-30 Ali Rostami Shirazi , Pouria Khalaj , Hosein Haghi

The Galactic Anticenter Stellar Structure (GASS) has been identified with excess surface densities of field stars in several large area sky surveys, and with an unusual, string-like grouping of five globular clusters. At least two of these…

Globular clusters are considerably more complex structures than previously thought, harbouring at least two stellar generations which present clearly distinct chemical abundances. Scenarios explaining the abundance patterns in globular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-12 F. Calura , C. G. Few , D. Romano , A. D'Ercole

Since the oldest globular clusters (GCs) are early residuals from the formation of the Milky Way (MW), GCs were exposed to the likely evolving potential of our Galaxy. The expulsion of the residual-gas from the GC's embedded progenitors is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Michael Marks , Pavel Kroupa

The last decade has seen the detection of fast moving stars in the Galactic halo, the so-called hypervelocity stars (HVSs). While the bulk of this population is likely the result of a close encounter between a stellar binary and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Giacomo Fragione , Alessia Gualandris

One of the possible origins of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is merging of compact binaries, and the effect of large kick velocity is a signature that can be used as an observational test for this hypothesis. Intracluster SGRBs that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuu Niino , Tomonori Totani