Merging timescales and merger rates of star clusters in dense star cluster complexes

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 113-131

  Fellhauer, M ^a   Baumgardt, H ^b   Kroupa, P ^c   Spurzem, R ^a  

^a ASTRONOMISCHES RECHEN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dwarf galaxies, galaxies; Interaction, galaxies; Merging; Methods; Numerical, galaxies; Star clusters, star clusters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141857759     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014597702936     Document Type: Article

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