Globular cluster systems in galaxies beyond the Local Group.
Abstract
This review emphasizes the globular cluster systems in galaxies beyond the Local Group, their global properties, and their use as tracers for galactic structure and galaxy formation.
- Publication:
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Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- 1991
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1991ARA&A..29..543H
- Keywords:
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- Disk Galaxies;
- Dwarf Galaxies;
- Elliptical Galaxies;
- Globular Clusters;
- Irregular Galaxies;
- Galactic Evolution;
- Metallicity;
- Stellar Color;
- Stellar Luminosity;
- Astrophysics;
- Galaxies: Globular Clusters;
- Galaxies: Structure