Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-05-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Proceeding of the conference "Extragalactic Star Clusters" held in Pucon, March 12-16, 2001, eds.Grebel, Geisler, Minniti, 11
Scientific paper
A brief review on globular cluster sub-populations in galaxies, and their constraints on galaxy formation and evolution is given. The metal-poor and metal-rich sub-populations are put in a historical context, and their properties, as known to date, are summarized. We review why the study of these sub-populations is extremely useful for the study of galaxy formation and evolution, but highlight a few caveats with the current interpretations. We re-visit the current globular cluster system formation scenarios and show how they boil down to a single scenario for the metal-poor clusters (namely the formation in ``universal'', small fragments at high $z$) and that a hierarchical formation seems favored for the metal-rich clusters.
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