Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21732704d&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #327.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
I will report the latest results of our project searching for stars born in clusters outside galaxies. Very often, when galaxies collide/merge/interact, their neutral gas, HI, is stripped out of them and found in extended tidal tails in the intergalactic medium. At first glance these gas clouds look empty and even detached from the galaxies. Recently, we have found out that this is not always the case. We used the GALEX ultraviolet satellite to search within HI tails in a sample of interacting galaxies and detected several young stellar clusters and even dwarf galaxies in the process of formation. Our team (Torres-Flores et al. 2010, Urrutia-Viscarra et al. 2011) has analyzed multiwavelength data (Gemini, SDSS, VATT) of these objects showing that they are young and metal rich. Our main conclusion is that they were formed "in situ” from pre-enriched material that was ejected from the galaxies during interaction. These nurseries can be (i) the precursors of globular clusters, (ii) dwarf galaxies in the process of formation or (iii) dissolve and not remain gravitationally bound, yielding only very sparse star streams.
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