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Star clusters as building blocks for dSph galaxy formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

P. Assmann ,
M. Fellhauer  and
M. I. Wilkinson
P. Assmann
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile email: passmann@astro-udec.cl, mfellhauer@astro-udec.cl
M. Fellhauer
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile email: passmann@astro-udec.cl, mfellhauer@astro-udec.cl
M. I. Wilkinson
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK email: miw6@astro.le.ac.uk
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Abstract

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We study numerically the formation of dSph galaxies. Intense starbursts, e.g., in gas-rich environments, typically produce a few to a few hundred young star clusters within a region of just a few hundred pc. The dynamical evolution of these star clusters may explain the formation of the luminous component of dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies. Here, we perform a numerical experiment to show that the evolution of star cluster complexes in dark-matter haloes can explain the formation of the luminous components of dSph galaxies.

Keywords

methods: N-body simulationsgalaxies: dwarfgalaxies: halos
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S266: Star clusters: basic galactic building blocks throughout time and space , August 2009 , pp. 353 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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