Second parameter globulars and dwarf spheroidals around the Local Group massive galaxies: What can they evidence?
@article{Kravtsov2002SecondPG, title={Second parameter globulars and dwarf spheroidals around the Local Group massive galaxies: What can they evidence?}, author={Valery V. Kravtsov}, journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics}, year={2002}, volume={396}, pages={117-123} }
We suggest that the majority of the "young", so-called "second parameter" globular clusters (SPGCs) have origi- nated 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 num- ber of such clusters among globulars in M 33 and their low portion in M 31, seems to be consistent with the suspected process. It…
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