SCYON Abstract

Received on May 5 2006

Dissolution of Globular Clusters

Authors	Holger Baumgardt
Affiliation	University of Bonn
To appear in	Invited review for the "Globular Clusters: Guides to Galaxies" conference, Concepcion, Chile, March 6th-10th, 2006
Contact	holger@astro.uni-bonn.de
URL	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605125
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Abstract

Globular clusters are among the oldest objects in galaxies, and understanding the details of their formation and evolution can bring valuable insight into the early history of galaxies. This review summarises the current knowledge about the dissolution of star clusters and discusses the implications of star cluster dissolution for the evolution of the mass function of star cluster systems in galaxies.