The Formation Histories of Metal-Rich and Metal-Poor Globular Clusters
| dc.creator | Zepf, Stephen E. | |
| dc.date | 2006-05-15 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:08:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:08:27Z | |
| dc.description | This review presents the results of ongoing studies of the formation histories of metal-poor and metal-rich globular clusters and their host galaxies. I first discuss the strong observational evidence that the globular cluster systems of most elliptical galaxies have bimodal metallicity distributions. I then focus on new results for metal-poor and metal-rich globular cluster systems. Metal-poor globular clusters are often associated with early structure formation, and I review new constraints on their formation epoch based on the ``bias'' of the number of metal-poor clusters with host galaxy mass. For metal-rich globular clusters, I discuss new results from ongoing optical to near-infrared photometric studies which both confirm an intermediate-age population in NGC 4365 and generally reveal a variety of formation histories for now quiescent ellipticals. | |
| dc.description | 8 pages, 3 figures, To appear in the proceedings of the "Globular Clusters: Guides to Galaxies" conference, March 2006, Concepcion, Chile | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605373 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605373 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/110714 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | The Formation Histories of Metal-Rich and Metal-Poor Globular Clusters | |
| dc.type | text |