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Are globular clusters the natural outcome of regular high-redshift star formation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2016

J. M. Diederik Kruijssen
J. M. Diederik Kruijssen*
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Max-Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 1, 85748, Garching, Germany email: kruijssen@mpa-garching.mpg.de
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We summarise the recent progress in understanding the formation and evolution of globular clusters (GCs) in the context of galaxy formation and evolution. It is discussed that an end-to-end model for GC formation and evolution should capture four different phases: (1) star and cluster formation in the high-pressure interstellar medium of high-redshift galaxies, (2) cluster disruption by tidal shocks in the gas-rich host galaxy disc, (3) cluster migration into the galaxy halo, and (4) the final evaporation-dominated evolution of GCs until the present day. Previous models have mainly focussed on phase 4. We present and discuss a simple model that includes each of these four steps – its key difference with respect to previous work is the simultaneous addition of the high-redshift formation and early evolution of young GCs, as well as their migration into galaxy haloes. The new model provides an excellent match to the observed GC mass spectrum and specific frequency, as well as the relations of GCs to the host dark matter halo mass and supermassive black hole mass. These results show (1) that the properties of present-day GCs are reproduced by assuming that they are the natural outcome of regular high-redshift star formation (i.e. they form according to same physical processes that govern massive cluster formation in the local Universe), and (2) that models only including GC evaporation strongly underestimate their integrated mass loss over a Hubble time.

Keywords

star formationgalaxy evolutiongalaxy formationglobular clustersstellar dynamics
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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Issue S312: Star Clusters and Black Holes in Galaxies across Cosmic Time , August 2014 , pp. 147 - 154
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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