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arxiv: 0706.1447 · v1 · submitted 2007-06-11 · 🌌 astro-ph

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Star clusters as diaries of galaxies

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Most if not all stars form in star clusters. Thus the distribution of star clusters preserves the information on the star formation history of a galaxy. Massive clusters form only during episodes of high star formation activity whereas periods of low star formation activity cannot produce them. We present here the method of Maschberger & Kroupa (2007) to derive the star formation history of a galaxy from its star-cluster content.

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