Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-02-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Small but important typo. p.3, Table 2: M^{-\alpha+Kr} should read M^{-(\alpha+Kr)} in both instances. Otherwise identical. La
Scientific paper
The globular cluster population in M87 has decreased measurably through dynamical evolution caused by relaxation, binary heating and time-dependent tidal perturbation. For fundamental plane ellipticals in general, cluster populations evolve more rapidly in smaller galaxies because of the higher mass density. A simple evolutionary model reproduces the observed trend in specific frequency with luminosity for an initially constant relationship. Fits of theoretically evolved populations to M87 cluster data from McLaughlin et al. (1994) show the following: 1) dynamical effects drive evolution in the initial mass and space distributions and can account for the large core in the spatial profile as well as producing radial-dependence in the mass spectrum; 2) evolution reduces S_N by 50% within 16 kpc and 35% within 50 kpc, implying that S_N was initially 26 in this region. We estimate that 15% of the `missing' clusters lie below the detection threshold with mass less than 10^5 M_sun.
Murali Chigurupati
Weinberg Martin D.
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