Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-12-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
An invited review (32 pages, 7 figures) in "The Chaotic Universe: Theory, Observations, Computer Experiments", Proceedings of
Scientific paper
Galactic globular clusters are ancient building blocks of our Galaxy. They represent a very interesting family of stellar systems in which some fundamental dynamical processes have been taking place for more than 10 Gyr, but on time scales shorter than the age of the universe. In contrast with galaxies, these star clusters represent unique laboratories for learning about two-body relaxation, mass segregation from equipartition of energy, stellar collisions, stellar mergers, core collapse, and tidal disruption. This review briefly summarizes some of the tremendous developments that have taken place during the last two decades. It ends with some recent results on tidal tails around galactic globular clusters and on a very massive globular cluster in M31.
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