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Galactic globular clusters are ancient building blocks of our Galaxy. They represent a very interesting family of stellar systems in which some fundamental dynamical processes have been taking place for more than 10 Gyr, but on time scales…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 G. Meylan

Numerical simulations of a Milky Way-size galaxy demonstrate that globular clusters with the properties similar to observed can form naturally at z > 3 in the concordance Lambda-CDM cosmology. The clusters in our model form in the strongly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Oleg Y. Gnedin

Recent observations show a large concentration of galaxies at high redshift. At first sight strong clustering of galaxies at high redshifts seems to be in contradiction with the models of structure formation. In this paper we show that such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. S. Bagla

The discovery of gravitationally lensed stellar clusters at high redshift with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed extremely compact, massive star-forming systems in galaxies at $z > 6$, providing a new window into early…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 Floor van Donkelaar , Lucio Mayer , Pedro R. Capelo , Debora Sijacki , Angela Adamo

Compact Groups (CGs) of galaxies are dense systems where projected separations are comparable to their optical diameters. A subset - non-isolated CGs - are embedded within major structures. Using multi-band S-PLUS data, we analyse galaxies…

We present the results of a self-consistent $N$-body simulation following the evolution of a primordial population of thick disc globular clusters (GCs). We study how the internal properties of such clusters evolve under the action of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Sergey Khoperskov , Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Paola Di Matteo , Misha Haywood

Black holes (BHs) play a major role in the structural and dynamical evolutions of Globular Clusters (GCs). Several recent works searched for BHs in Galactic GCs using scaling relations derived from numerical simulations. However, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-20 Alessandro Della Croce

Globular clusters (GCs) constitute a system which is evolving because of various interactions with the galactic environment. Evolution may be the explanation of many observed features of Globular Cluster Systems (GCSs); the different radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta

Using deep photometric data from WFC@INT and [email protected] we measure the outer number density profiles of 19 stellar clusters located in the inner region of the Milky Way halo (within a Galactocentric distance range of 10-30 kpc) in order to…

Typical globular clusters (GCs - young and old) host stellar populations with little or no star-to-star variations in heavy elements (e.g., Ca, Fe) nor in age. Nuclear star clusters (NSCs), on the other hand, host complex stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 Nate Bastian , Joel Pfeffer

We investigate the spatial, kinematic and chemical properties of globular cluster systems formed in merging and interacting galaxies using N-body/SPH simulations. Although we can not resolve individual clusters in our simulation, we assume…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Bekki , Duncan A. Forbes , M. A. Beasley , W. J. Couch

Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies appear to be the densest galaxy systems containing a few luminous galaxies in close proximity to each other, which have a typical size of a few tens kilopacsec in observation. On the other hand, in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-20 Yunliang Zheng , Shiyin Shen

The early universe hosted a large population of low-mass virialized "minihalos," that were not massive enough to form stars on their own. While most minihalos were photoevaporated by ionizing photons from star-forming galaxies, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 William J Gray , Evan Scannapieco

Stars are often observed to form in clusters. It is therefore important to understand how such a region of concentrated mass is assembled out of the diffuse medium and its properties eventually prescribe the important physical mechanisms…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 Yueh-Ning Lee , Patrick Hennebelle

N-body simulations are used to model the early evolution of globular clusters. These simulations include residual gas which was not turned into stars which is expelled from the globular cluster by the actions of massive stars. The results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Simon P Goodwin

Globular clusters in most large galaxies are a mixture of metal-poor and metal-rich (bimodal), but the halo stars are almost entirely metal-rich. This and other lines of evidence argue that the metal-poor globular clusters formed within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. E. Harris

We explore the clustering properties of high redshift dark matter halos, focusing on halos massive enough to host early generations of stars or galaxies at redshift 10 and greater. Halos are extracted from an array of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Darren S. Reed , Richard Bower , Carlos S. Frenk , Adrian Jenkins , Tom Theuns

It is likely that all stars are born in clusters, but most clusters are not bound and disperse. None of the many protoclusters in our Galaxy are likely to develop into long-lived bound clusters. The Super Star Clusters (SSCs) seen in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Sara Beck

Stars in globular clusters lose mass through slow stellar winds that are retained by the stellar cluster and contribute to build up a non negligible intracluster medium over time. However, all the observations so far found only a negligible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 William Chantereau

Globular clusters (GCs) are bright objects that span a wide range of galactocentric distances, and are thus probes of the structure of dark matter (DM) haloes. In this work, we explore whether the projected radial profiles of GCs can be…