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Magellanic globulars as cosmological tools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Alvio Renzini
Alvio Renzini*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Bologna, CP 596 1-40100 Bologna, Italy

Abstract

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The globular clusters (GC) of the Magellanic Clouds play a very important role for many astrophysical and cosmological topics. For example, they represent the ideal testground for stellar evolution theory, they allow us to study the the early dynamical evolution of star clusters, to obtain accurate initial mass functions in a fairly extended mass range, to calibrate the Cepheid period-luminosity relation, and so on. In this brief paper I will touch upon two items which are of considerable cosmological interest, and about which Magellanic Cloud globulars provide unique information. These topics concern i) GC formation in galaxies, and ii) the epoch of galaxy formation.

Type
Star Formation and Clustering
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 148: The Magellanic Clouds , 1991 , pp. 165 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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