SCYON Abstract

Received on July 23 2001

Dwarf Galaxies and Star Clusters in Tidal Tails

Authors	Peter M. Weilbacher¹, Uta Fritze-von Alvensleben¹, and Pierre-Alain Duc²
Affiliation	¹Universitäts-Sternwarte Göttingen, Geismarlandstr. 11, 37083 Göttingen, Germany ²CNRS and CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SAp, Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette cedex, France
To appear in	the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 207 ``Extragalactic Star Clusters'', eds. E. Grebel, D. Geisler and D. Minitti
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Abstract

We summarize the properties of tidal dwarf candidates in a sample of interacting galaxies and classify objects in tidal tails depending on their morphological appearance. New high-resolution dynamical models are needed to understand how the different structures seen in tidal tails are formed.