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20172026
most citedThe formation and assembly history of the Milky Way revealed by its globular cluster population

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47 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Introducing AuriGLOBES: The effects of compressive tides, compact object-induced mass loss, and size evolution on modelling globular clusters

Pablo Contreras Guerra, Robert J. J. Grand, Marta Reina-Campos +1

Globular clusters (GCs) are long time survivors of galaxy assembly and evolution yet their emergence from an initial cluster population is still poorly constrained. We present the…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Contribution of Disrupted Dense Star Clusters to Gaia's Compact Object Binaries

Aryanna Schiebelbein-Zwack, Claire S. Ye, Marta Reina-Campos +3

We present the first model of the Milky Way's detectable compact object--luminous star binary population from disrupted dense star clusters. We bridge large-scale cosmological star…

astro-ph.GA2026

On the correlation between globular clusters and the distribution of dark matter in galaxy clusters: the case of Abell 2744

Marta Reina-Campos, Joshua S. Speagle, William E. Harris

Globular clusters (GCs) lie scattered around the inner of the virial radius of galaxy clusters, potentially being excellent tracers of the underlying mass distribution. In t…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWST Photometry of Globular Cluster Populations in MACS0417.5-1154

William E. Harris, Marta Reina-Campos, Kaitlyn E. Keatley +8

Deep JWST imaging of the massive galaxy cluster MACS0417.5-1154, at redshift z=0.443, reveals a huge population of globular clusters (GCs) and Ultra-Compact Dwarfs (UCDs) primarily…

astro-ph.GA2025

PEARLS: Globular Clusters and Ultra-Compact Dwarfs in the El Gordo Galaxies at z=0.87

William E. Harris, Marta Reina-Campos, Anton M. Koekemoer +11

JWST/NIRCam 0.9 to 2.0 micron images reveal a population of point sources around the major galaxies in the El Gordo cluster at redshift z=0.87. Their distribution in the color--mag…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Mass Distribution of Binary Black Hole Mergers from Young and Old Dense Star Clusters

Claire S. Ye, Maya Fishbach, Kyle Kremer +1

Dense star clusters are thought to contribute significantly to the merger rates of stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. We combine…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

The cosmic globular cluster formation history in the E-MOSAICS simulations

Philipp S. Joschko, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez +4

We present a comprehensive analysis of globular cluster (GC) formation and evolution across the Mpc volume of the E-MOSAICS galaxy formation simulations. Defining GCs as…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

A systematic analysis of star cluster disruption by tidal shocks -- II. Predicting star cluster dissolution rates from a time-series analysis of their tidal histories

Jeremy J. Webb, Marta Reina-Campos, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

Most of the dynamical mass loss from star clusters is thought to be caused by the time-variability of the tidal field (``tidal shocks''). Systematic studies of tidal shocks have be…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Radio-FIR correlation- A probe into cosmic ray propagation in the nearby galaxy IC 342

M. R. Nasirzadeh, F. S. Tabatabaei, R. Beck +6

Resolved studies of the correlation between the radio and far-infrared (FIR) emission from galaxies at different frequencies can unveil the interplay between star formation and rel…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Star Clusters As Links between galaxy Evolution and Star formation (SCALES) project I: Numerical method

Marta Reina-Campos, Oleg Y. Gnedin, Alison Sills +1

Stellar clusters are critical constituents within galaxies: they are the result of highest-density star formation, and through their spatially and temporally correlated feedback th…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 19 cited

Imaging dark matter at the smallest scales with lensed stars

J. M. Diego, Sung Kei Li, Alfred Amruth +19

Observations of caustic-crossing galaxies at redshift show a wealth of transient events. Most of them are believed to be microlensing events of highly magnified stars. Ea…

astro-ph.GA2024

JWST Photometry of Globular Clusters in Abell 2744. II: luminosity and color distributions

William E. Harris, Marta Reina-Campos

Deep JWST imaging of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 2744, at redshift , is used to explore the features of its rich population of globular clusters (GCs), building on our…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

RESCUER: Cosmological K-corrections for star clusters

Marta Reina-Campos, William E. Harris

The advent of JWST (the James Webb Space Telescope) now allows entire star cluster populations to be imaged in galaxies at cosmologically significant redshifts, bringing with it th…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

HI discs of L galaxies as probes of the baryonic physics of galaxy evolution

Jindra Gensior, Robert Feldmann, Marta Reina-Campos +7

Understanding what shapes the cold gas component of galaxies, which both provides the fuel for star formation and is strongly affected by the subsequent stellar feedback, is a cruc…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

Galactic properties that favour star cluster formation: a statistical view

Samantha C. Berek, Marta Reina-Campos, Gwendolyn Eadie +1

The presence or absence of star clusters in galaxies, and the properties of star cluster populations compared to their host galaxy properties, are important observables for validat…

astro-ph.GA2023

JWST Photometry of Globular Cluster Populations in Abell 2744 at

William E. Harris, Marta Reina-Campos

JWST imaging of the rich galaxy cluster Abell 2744 at has been used by the UNCOVER team (Bezanson et al. 2022) to construct mosaic images in the NIRCAM filters. The excep…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

Initial sizes of star clusters: implications for cluster dissolution during galaxy evolution

Marta Reina-Campos, Alison Sills, Godefroy Bichon

Massive star clusters are often used as tracers of galaxy formation and assembly. In order to do so, we must understand their properties at formation, and how those properties chan…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

Rubin Observatory LSST Stars Milky Way and Local Volume Star Clusters Roadmap

Christopher Usher, Kristen C. Dage, Léo Girardi +26

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will undertake the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, providing an unprecedented, volume-limited catalog of star clusters in the Southern Sky, including…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Extragalactic Star Cluster Science with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's High Latitude Wide Area Survey and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Kristen C. Dage, Christopher Usher, Jennifer Sobeck +22

The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope's High Latitude Wide Area Survey will have a number of synergies with the Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), particula…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

In-situ or accreted? Using deep learning to infer the origin of extragalactic globular clusters from observables

Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Joel Pfeffer +4

Globular clusters (GCs) are powerful tracers of the galaxy assembly process, and have already been used to obtain a detailed picture of the progenitors of the Milky Way. Using the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 1 cited

Constraining the shape of dark matter haloes with globular clusters

Marta Reina-Campos, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, Joel L. Pfeffer +4

We explore how diffuse stellar light and globular clusters (GCs) can be used to trace the matter distribution of their host halo using an observational methodology. For this, we us…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 55 cited

Introducing EMP-Pathfinder: modelling the simultaneous formation and evolution of stellar clusters in their host galaxies

Marta Reina-Campos, Benjamin W. Keller, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen +5

The formation and evolution of stellar clusters is intimately linked to that of their host galaxies. To study this connection, we present the EMP-Pathfinder suite of cosmological z…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

The physics governing the upper truncation mass of the globular cluster mass function

Meghan E. Hughes, Joel L. Pfeffer, Nate Bastian +5

The mass function of globular cluster (GC) populations is a fundamental observable that encodes the physical conditions under which these massive stellar clusters formed and evolve…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 36 cited

Globular clusters as tracers of the dark matter halo: insights from the E-MOSAICS simulations

Marta Reina-Campos, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, Alis J. Deason +5

Globular clusters (GCs) are bright objects that span a wide range of galactocentric distances, and are thus probes of the structure of dark matter (DM) haloes. In this work, we exp…