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Recent images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of the interacting disk galaxies NGC 4038/4039 (the Antennae) reveal clusters of many dozens and possibly hundreds of young compact massive star clusters within projected regions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Pavel Kroupa

A review of gravitational and hydrodynamical processes during formation of clusters and evolution of galaxies is given. Early, at the advent of N-body computer simulations, the importance of tidal fields in galaxy encounters has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jan Palous

We investigate the shallow increase in globular cluster half-light radii with projected galactocentric distance $R_{gc}$ observed in the giant galaxies M87, NGC 1399, and NGC 5128. To model the trend in each galaxy, we explore the effects…

We use the Millennium II cosmological simulation combined with the semi-analytic galaxy formation model of Guo et al. (2011) to predict the contribution of galactic nuclei formed by the tidal stripping of nucleated dwarf galaxies to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Joel Pfeffer , Brendan F. Griffen , Holger Baumgardt , Michael Hilker

We study the tidal evolution of galaxies in the most massive cluster of the IllustrisTNG-100 simulation. For the purpose of this work we select 112 galaxies with the largest stellar masses at present and follow their properties in time.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Ewa L. Lokas

We analyze the morphological evolution of open clusters and provide shape parameters for 265 open clusters. The results show that the overall shape of sample clusters becomes more elliptical as they grow older, while their core remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Qingshun Hu , Yu Zhang , Ali Esamdin , Jinzhong Liu , Xiangyun Zeng

We report the discovery of a giant, loop-like stellar structure around the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4013. This arcing feature extends 6 arcmin (~26 kpc in projected distance) northeast from the center and 3 arcmin (~=12 kpc) from the disk…

The stellar content of Galactic open clusters is gradually depleted during their evolution as a result of internal relaxation and external interactions. The final residues of the evolution of open clusters are called open cluster remnants,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , F. F. S. Maia

Tidal structures around globular clusters provide valuable insights into cluster evolution and the hierarchical assembly of the Milky Way. Using wide-field imaging data from the DESI Legacy Survey combined with a color-magnitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-24 Shouzhi Wang , Jundan Nie , Biwei Jiang , Hao Tian , Chao Liu , Ying-Hua Zhang

Understanding the exact extent and content of tidal tails of open clusters provide useful clues on how field stars populate the Milky Way. We reanalyse, using Gaia EDR3 data, the tails around the open cluster NGC 752. Compared to previous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Henri M. J. Boffin , Tereza Jerabkova , Giacomo Beccari , Long Wang

The Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) shows a rare increase in its velocity dispersion profile at large radii, indicative of energetic, yet bound, stars at large radii dominating the velocity dispersion and, potentially, of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-07-06 Richard R. Lane , Andreas H. W. Küpper , Douglas C. Heggie

We studied the structure of two old open clusters, NGC 1245 and NGC 2506, from a wide and deep VI photometry data acquired using the CFH12K CCD camera at CFHT. We devised a new method for assigning cluster membership probability to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 S. H. Lee , Y. -W. Kang , H. B. Ann

Context: Recent studies using Gaia data have reported tidal tail detections for tens to hundreds of open clusters. However, a comprehensive assessment of the reliability & completeness of these detections is lacking. Aims: This work aims to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Vikrant V. Jadhav , Dhanraj Risbud , Pavel Kroupa , Wenjie Wu

In the first paper we presented 27 hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of galaxies with total masses between $5 \times 10^8$ and $10^{10}\,\mathrm{M}_\odot$. In this second paper we use a subset of these cosmological simulations as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Jonas Frings , Andrea V. Macciò , Tobias Buck , Camilla Penzo , Aaron A. Dutton , Aura Obreja , Marvin Blank

We consider tidal masses and ages of Milky Way open clusters, as well as a simple model of their distribution. Our aim is to investigate the space of model parameters and the correspondence between modelled and observed two-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-21 Jonathan H. Klos , Andreas Just , Evgeny V. Polyachenko , Peter Berczik , Marina Ishchenko

A fraction of dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster contain disk features like bars and spiral arms. Using $N$-body simulations, we investigate the effects of tidal forces on the formation of such disk features in disk dwarf galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 SungWon Kwak , Woong-Tae Kim , Soo-Chang Rey , Thomas R. Quinn

Wide-field deep gri images obtained with the Megacam of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) are used to investigate the spatial configuration of stars around five metal-poor globular cluster M15, M30, M53, NGC 5053, and NGC 5466, in a…

Gravitational interactions in rich clusters can strip material from the outer parts of galaxies or even completely disrupt entire systems, giving rise to large scale, low surface brightness ghostly features stretching across intergalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael D. Gregg , Michael J. West

Most stars in our Galaxy form in stellar aggregates, which can become long-lived structures called open clusters (OCs). Along their dynamical evolution, their gradual depletion leave some imprints on their structure. In this work, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-19 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , F. F. S. Maia , W. J. B. Corradi

The influence of the Cosmic Web on galaxy formation and evolution is of great observational and theoretical interest. We investigate whether the Cosmic Web leaves an imprint in the spatial clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Aseem Paranjape , Oliver Hahn , Ravi K. Sheth