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The Life and Death of Globular Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Hyung Mok Lee
Hyung Mok Lee*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Program, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151–742, Korea

Abstract

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Globular clusters are embedded in galactic potential. Various processes such as dynamical friction, steady tidal field, and shocks by disk and bulge contribute to the dissolution of globular clusters. Most of them are closely coupled with internal dynamical processes. The tidal shock is very effective during the initial phase of the cluster evolution while steady tidal field becomes more important in the later phase. Recent studies revealed that the rotation of the cluster could significantly accelerate the evolution and evaporation. We emphasize that the lifetime of the clusters could be much shorter than the previous estimates of ∼ 20trh for more realistic models.

Type
Part 4. Star Cluster Formation and Evolution: Theory and Observation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 207: Extragalactic Star Clusters , 2002 , pp. 584 - 592
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002 

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