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Young Galactic Globular Clusters

Author(s) -

Sidney van den Bergh

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

the astrophysical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376

H-Index - 489

eISSN - 1538-4357

pISSN - 0004-637X

DOI - 10.1086/311224

Subject(s) - globular cluster , astrophysics , physics , galactic halo , metallicity , halo , astronomy , cluster (spacecraft) , galaxy , computer science , programming language

Nine presently known "young" Galactic globular clusters, which have ages / 3Gyr smaller than the oldest clusters of similar metallicity, all have RGC > 15kpc. Furthermore these young globulars are found to have below-averageluminosities. These results suggest that (1) globular cluster formationextended over a considerable period of time in the outermost part of theGalactic halo, and (2) that typical luminosities (masses) of such outer haloclusters decreased with time.Comment: 3 pages, HTML file + one figur

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