Extragalactic globular clusters and galaxy formation

JP Brodie, J Strader - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Globular cluster (GC) systems have now been studied in galaxies ranging from dwarfs to
giants and spanning the full Hubble sequence of morphological types. Imaging and …

Internal dynamics of globular clusters

G Meylan, DC Heggie - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 1997 - Springer
Galactic globular clusters, which are ancient building blocks of our Galaxy, represent a very
interesting family of stellar systems in which some fundamental dynamical processes have …

Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant

AG Riess, AV Filippenko, P Challis… - The astronomical …, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
We present spectral and photometric observations of 10 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in the
redshift range 0.16≤ z≤ 0.62. The luminosity distances of these objects are determined by …

The ages of 55 globular clusters as determined using an improved method along with color–magnitude diagram constraints, and their implications for broader issues

DA VandenBerg, K Brogaard, R Leaman… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Ages have been derived for 55 globular clusters (GCs) for which Hubble Space Telescope
Advanced Camera for Surveys photometry is publicly available. For most of them, the …

The ACS survey of galactic globular clusters. IX. Horizontal branch morphology and the second parameter phenomenon

A Dotter, A Sarajedini, J Anderson… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The horizontal branch (HB) morphology of globular clusters (GCs) is most strongly
influenced by metallicity. The second parameter phenomenon, first described in the 1960s …

[图书][B] Nucleosynthesis and chemical evolution of galaxies

BEJ Pagel - 2009 - books.google.com
The distribution of elements in the cosmos provides a powerful tool to study the Big Bang,
the density of baryonic matter, nucleosynthesis and the formation and evolution of stars and …

[图书][B] Evolution of stars and stellar populations

M Salaris, S Cassisi - 2005 - books.google.com
Evolution of Stars and Stellar Populations is a comprehensive presentation of the theory of
stellar evolution and its application to the study of stellar populations in galaxies. Taking a …

THE ACS SURVEY OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS. VII.* RELATIVE AGES

A Marin-Franch, A Aparicio, G Piotto… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The ACS Survey of Galactic globular clusters is a Hubble Space Telescope
Treasury program designed to provide a new large, deep, and homogeneous photometric …

Space velocities of globular clusters. III. Cluster orbits and halo substructure

DI Dinescu, TM Girard… - The Astronomical Journal, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
We have compiled a catalog of absolute proper motions of globular clusters from various
sources. The sample consists of 38 clusters, from which most of the southern ones (15 …

The kinematics, orbit, and survival of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy

R Ibata, R Wyse, G Gilmore, M Irwin… - arXiv preprint astro-ph …, 1996 - arxiv.org
The Sagittarius galaxy (Sgr), the closest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, has survived for
many orbits about the Galaxy. Extant numerical calculations modeled this galaxy as a …