Globular Cluster Formation & IntraCluster Globular Clusters
Globular clusters are compact and dense clumps of stars. They are very common, surrounding most galaxies in a rich and extended cloud of globular clusters. In clusters and groups of galaxies, some of a galaxy's globular clusters may be tidally stripped off to form so called intra-cluster globular clusters. Such tidal stripping can form long tidal tails of stars, but these are often too low surface brightness to be observed easily. But the globular clusters often trace out such structures, as a series of high surface birhgtness points, making them useful objects for detecting such features. We test various recipes for the formation of globular clusters, in a fully cosmological context, to try to better constrain their poorly understood origins, and to better constrain the observed properties of intracluster globular clusters.