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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 626, 期 2, 页码 L93-L96出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/431737
关键词
galaxies : star clusters; Galaxy : abundances; Galaxy : evolution; Galaxy : halo; Galaxy : structure; globular clusters : general
We propose that structural, kinematical, and chemical properties of the Galactic globular clusters ( GCs) can contain fossil information of the cosmic reionization history. We first summarize the possible observational evidence for the influence of reionization on the Galactic GC formation. We then show how structural properties of the GC system ( GCS) in the Galaxy can be influenced by suppression of GC formation due to reionization during the Galaxy formation through hierarchical merging of subgalactic clumps, by using numerical simulations with and without suppression of GC formation by reionization. In particular, we show that if GC formation in dwarf galaxies that are building blocks of the Galaxy and virialized after reionization era (z(region)) are completely suppressed, the present- day radial distribution of the Galactic GCs depends strongly on z(region). Our numerical results imply that if GC formation after z(region) similar to 15 is strongly suppressed, the origin of the observed structural properties of the Galactic GCS can be more naturally explained in the framework of the hierarchical clustering scenario.
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