The Globular Cluster Luminosity Function

Abstract

The main aspects of the globular cluster luminosity function needing to be explained by a general theory of cluster formation are reviewed, and the importance of simultaneously understanding globular cluster systematics (the fundamental plane) within such a theory is pointed out.

7 pages, to appear in Proceedings of the ESO Workshop on Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems, ed. M. Kissler-Patig

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• The Formation History of Globular Clusters

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