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Proto–Globular Cluster Candidates in NGC 1275

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Jean P. Brodie
Jean P. Brodie*
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, U.S.A.

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The discovery, with HST imaging, of proto–globular cluster candidates in NGC 1275 (Holtzman et al. 1992) was regarded by many as a major success of the merger model for globular cluster formation (e.g. Ashman & Zepf 1992) and has been cited in support of the idea that elliptical galaxies form from the merger of two or more spiral galaxies. A prediction of the Ashman & Zepf model was that newly-formed clusters should be observable in currently or recently merging systems. The NGC 1275 clusters constitute an important test of globular cluster formation models. NGC 1275 is the peculiar cD galaxy at the center of the Perseus cluster. It shows evidence for a merger history and may indeed be undergoing a merger at present. It also has one of the largest known cooling flows.

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Starbursts
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 186: Galaxy Interactions at High and Low Redshift , 1999 , pp. 273 - 274
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Copyright © Kluwer 1999 

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