Second Parameter Globulars and Dwarf Spheroidals around the Local Group Massive Galaxies: What Can They Evidence?

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2002-09-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209553v1

Astron.Astrophys. 396 (2002) 117-124

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, no figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20021404

We suggest that the majority of the "young", so--called "second parameter" globular clusters (SPGCs) have originated in the outer Galactic halo due to a process other than a tidal disruption of the dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies. Basic observational evidence regarding both the dSphs and the SPGCs, coupled with the latest data about a rather large relative number of such clusters among globulars in M33 and their low portion in M31, seems to be consistent with the suspected process. It might have taken place within the system of the most massive galaxies of the Local Group (LG) at the earliest stages of their formation and evolution. We argue that the origin and basic characteristics of the SPGCs can naturally be explained as a result of mass outflow from M31, during and due to formation of its Pop. II stars, and subsequent accretion of gas onto its massive companions, the Galaxy and M33. An amount of the gas accreted onto the Milky Way is expected to have been quite enough for the formation in the outer Galactic halo not only of the clusters under consideration but also a number of those dSph galaxies which are as young as the SPGCs. A less significant, but notable mass transfer from the starbursting protoGalaxy to the massive members of the LG might have occurred, too.

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