ellipticals, from feedback and galactic winds. Implications for a merger-formation model of early-type GCSs, and for the proposed existence of intergalactic globulars in clusters of galaxies, are briefly discussed.
author:
- 'Dean E. McLaughlin'
title: THE EFFICIENCY OF GLOBULAR CLUSTER FORMATION
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Introduction
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As the study of galaxy formation comes more and more to require a reliable description of star-gas interactions and feedback on relatively small spatial scales, it is forced towards questions that overlap with fundamental issues in star formation theory. Conversely, as evidence accumulates that most stars today—in environments ranging from the disk of the Milky Way to circumnuclear starbursts—are born not in isolation but in groups, the study of star formation in general seems increasingly to demand a focus on larger scales than might previously have been considered. Although these two disciplines have not yet converged—the smallest scales currently of importance for galaxy formation can still be one or two orders of magnitude greater than the “large” scales in star formation—they will necessarily continue to approach one another as further progress is made. It is therefore important to identify and understand those areas of truly common interest, on the largest stellar scales and the smallest galactic 